WATCH: Rare Canada Lynx Spotted in Vermont Taking a Stroll Down the Road

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department has confirmed that a Canada lynx was seen in Vermont for the first time in six years.

A video taken by Gary Shattuck shows this rare wild cat that is native to most of New England but is endangered in Vermont and threatened nationally, casually walking down the side of a road in Rutland County.

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Brehan Furfey, a wildlife biologist and with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department said that the endangered status of the Canada lynx, "makes any verifiable lynx sighting in our state important.  This newest sighting is especially exciting because the cat was spotted in Rutland County, far south of most confirmed lynx reports in Vermont.”

Canada Lynx hunt snowshoe hares and the climate of parts of Vermont makes good hunting for the lynx, but this one is not in the best place to thrive. This species is more common in New Hampshire and Maine.

Since 2016 the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says they have received over 160 reports of lynx, but only seven of them were confirmed showing just how rare they are.

If think you see a lynx, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says the most helpful thing you can do is take a photo or video, as this person did, and send it to the Fish and Wildlife Department. Most photos and videos they receive are bobcats, but they'd still like the pictures in case one of them is the endangered Canda Lynx.

“If you think you’re looking at a lynx the most helpful thing you can do is take a photo or video and send it to the Fish and Wildlife Department,” said Furfey.  “The large majority of photographs our biologists receive are bobcats, but that doesn’t exclude the possibility that a Canada lynx will show up one day.”