How reliable are traditional wildlife surveys?

To effectively manage a wildlife species, one of the most basic things you need to know is how many of them are out there. However, it's almost never feasible to count every single individual -- so how do the results of wildlife surveys compare to true population size? A new study tests this using the results of more than thirty years of surveys of the Rocky Mountain population of sandhill cranes.

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