It'd be great if they'd stop putting those huge tracking devices around these mountain lions' necks down in SoCal (and elsewhere). Also, not a fan of banding (UC Berkeley Falcons for example). Extremely traumatizing for the animal.
Do you have a citation for this?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=banding+day
I believe they also stopped doing it at the Big Bear eagle nest.
And for mountain lions: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/13/los-angeles-... no mate yet? Hmm wonder if it could be the huge and unnecessary device strapped around its neck.
The Guardian link says absolutely nothing about the collar being traumatizing.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...