During the worldwide shutdown in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many reports emerged of urban wildlife sightings. While these images garnered public interest and declarations of wildlife reclaiming cities, it is unclear whether wildlife truly reoccupied urban areas or whether there were simply increased detections of urban wildlife during this time. Here, we detail key questions and needs for monitoring wildlife during the COVID‐19 shutdown and then link these with future needs and actions with the intent of improving conservation within urban ecosystems. We discuss the tools ecologists and conservation scientists can use to safely and effectively study urban wildlife during the shutdown. With a coordinated, multicity effort, researchers and community scientists can rigorously investigate the responses of wildlife to changes in human activities, which can help us address long‐standing questions in urban ecology, inspire conservation of wildlife, and inform the design of sustainable cities.

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在 COVID-19 全球封锁期间，我们可以从野生动物的目击事件中学到什么？


在为应对新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行而在全球范围内实施封锁期间，出现了许多关于城市野生动物目击事件的报道。虽然这些图像引起了公众的兴趣，并宣布野生动物重新占领城市，但目前尚不清楚野生动物是否真正重新占领了城市地区，或者只是在这段时间内发现了更多的城市野生动物。在这里，我们详细介绍了在 COVID-19 关闭期间监测野生动物的关键问题和需求，然后将这些问题与未来的需求和行动联系起来，以改善城市生态系统内的保护。我们讨论了生态学家和保护科学家在封锁期间可以用来安全有效地研究城市野生动物的工具。通过多城市的协调努力，研究人员和社区科学家可以严格调查野生动物对人类活动变化的反应，这可以帮助我们解决城市生态中长期存在的问题，激发对野生动物的保护，并为可持续城市的设计提供信息。