WEST staff has expertise and experience with detection dogs and can provide guidance, direction, and implementation of wildlife surveys using dogs. WEST biologists have developed a high-quality training program for detection dogs to execute a variety of wildlife surveys, including bat and bird carcass searches at renewable energy facilities. For carcass detection, dogs provide a higher searcher efficiency than humans alone in difficult-to-search conditions, such as cropland with varying terrain and vegetation cover. Detection dogs can also cover larger search areas and find target scents more quickly.