carcass

Estimation of the Number of Fatalities from Carcass Searches

Last update: 3 October 2023

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Software version identifier: 1.6, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7

Description

The number of bird or bat fatalities from collisions with buildings, towers or wind energy turbines can be estimated based on carcass searches and experimentally assessed carcass persistence times and searcher efficiency. Functions for estimating the probability that a bird or bat that died is found by a searcher are provided. Further functions calculate the posterior distribution of the number of fatalities based on the number of carcasses found and the estimated detection probability.

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