Aerial culling can remove many animals quickly (i.e., days/weeks) [12, 13], can be more effective in remote locations than ground-based shooting [14], and can be an effective landscape-scale control tool for medium-to-large bodied species [2, 14, 15, 16]. However, effectiveness depends on visual detection of the target species, which can be difficult in tall forests and/or dense vegetation. The success of aerial culling can also be reduced when the target population size is small [17] (e.g., an emerging population), or when populations have already been reduced substantially by previous intervention. In artificially reduced populations, survivors of previous aerial culling often flee to the safety of vegetation cover, reducing the efficacy of subsequent control [18, 19].