These errors can lead to bias in human searches for bat and avian mortality.
What is variation in monitoring methods and distance detection rates?
This study design was used by researchers in combination with scent dogs.
What is transects oriented perpendicular to the wind?
These characteristics were important for selecting detection dogs.
What is their health, athleticism, keenness to play with toys, and willingness to work with human handlers?
This is a recommended component to add search fatality studies to remove bias.
What is searching to a maximum radius, utilizing tighter spaced transects, detection dogs?
These are two proposed methods to define a maximum search radius.
What is ballistics or pattern of spatial distribution?
This was the time of year chosen by the author to conduct their research.
What is through fall migration, September through November?
This causes human searcher rates to decrease?
small carcass size
Researchers used this to create an index of carcass visibility?
What is measured distances to trial carcass occlusions?
This is where the least amount of bird fatalities are found within the radius of wind turbines.
What is upwind of turbines?
Researchers can use these methods to amend the error of falsely determined removals of carcasses.
What is taking fatality photos, keeping record of where/when remains found?
This underestimates the fatalities found in a carcass survey.
What is a smaller maximum search radius?
This describes the accuracy and precision of the human searchers results.
What is high accuracy and low precision?
This model was used to fit the collective number of fatalities found at wind turbine sites.
What is logistic model?