Photo of the Day 338

Lynx Trap, British Columbia, Canada, 2005

Photograph by Amy Toensing

A bird's wing waves above a trap set for lynx in British Columbia, Canada. Captured for conservation, trapped cats are set free in the Colorado Rockies—part of a project to restore the lynx to their historic range after decades of absence.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Of Lynx and Men," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)