“Does it make Jackie in some way less wild? And is that okay? You might say perhaps it is with just one or two individual birds. But if we ended up in a situation where we were monitoring and surveilling almost all the members of her species, we might even start to think about whether that species is still a wild species at all.”

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…fans waited for news. These were people who had never been anywhere near Jackie, but felt as if they knew her. And then in August, the Ojai Raptor Center announced that Jackie had died. Now, in the wild, animals die all the time. But Jackie, she didn't die anonymously. She died with an audience.

We don't know whether the cameras changed anything for Jackie, but they certainly changed the people watching her. And that leaves us with a problem. How do we decide when watching helps and when it goes too far? So what would eco-surveillance look like in a perfect world or your perfect world?

So what colleagues of mine and I have suggested is that there should at least be some kind of protocols so that anybody who is thinking about setting up eco-surveillance systems should think through and answer some questions throughout the whole process.

Like being prepared to encounter things you weren't expecting.