The largest movement we ve seen to date that may have been related to breeding is the male that moved to Laramie. These have primarily been movements of males towards a female. We have documented 5 potential pairs where I define a pair as a male and female within 4 miles of each oth er and in the same drainage. We have had 2 mortalities since the last update. BC99F15 was found dead on February 27 North of Pitkin.
Necropsy results put cause of death as starvation.
The second mortality was a lynx hit by a truck in New Mexico, we do not have the collar but could confirm it was a satellite collar from the 2000 releases. The identification of this lynx could be any one of the 6 missing lynx that had satellite collars on. Of the total 96 lynx released over the last 2 years we have 33 known mortalities. We have one of the 2000 release females that probably slipped her collar. Thanks again to all of you who have called in sightings - these really help us when we fly for lynx.