Average search and scavenging rates taken from pesticide impact studies [42].

Search and detection rates are based on daily averages weighted by the number of study plots. Search rates represent the proportion of carcasses found over the total number still present at the time of search. Scavenging rates represent daily measurements averaged over all plots without regard for the number of placed carcasses. Search rates are undoubtedly at the high end of that which is possible because the search procedures were optimized, always including trained lines of searchers spaced optimally for the habitat as well as the use of search dogs in some studies.