Thermal imaging technologies have been used successfully in ground-shooting campaigns to control many species including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) [36], sambar deer [37], and kangaroos (Macropodidae) [38]. However, there is little published information on the use of thermal equipment in aerial culling programs.  Recently, thermal imaging paired with shotguns was successfully trialled on fallow deer in south-east South Australia [5]. There is one published record of using thermal imaging in aerial culling for pig eradication at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park [39], although there is no detail on how it was used. Thermal imaging has also been trialled in several formats for aerial culling in New Zealand since 1982, and extensive research and development on its use in aerial culling has occurred since 2015 [N. McDonald, unpublished data, 2018]. The developed method of thermal aerial culling (also known as thermal-assisted aerial culling and thermal-assisted aerial shooting), has been used to remove pigs from Falla Peninsula on Auckland Island [F. Cox, unpublished data, 2019], red deer from Five Fingers Peninsula on Resolution Island [N. McDonald, unpublished data, 2018], and goats from Raukumara Ranges (D. Paine, personal observation, 28 May 2022).