About the Authors

Julien Martin

julien.martin@myfwc.com

Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Holly H. Edwards

Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Florent Bled

Affiliations Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, United States Geological Survey, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Christopher J. Fonnesbeck

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jérôme A. Dupuis

Affiliation Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Beth Gardner

Affiliation Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Stacie M. Koslovsky

Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Allen M. Aven

Affiliations Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Leslie I. Ward-Geiger

Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Ruth H. Carmichael

Affiliations Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Daniel E. Fagan

Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Monica A. Ross

Affiliation Sea to Shore Alliance, 4411, Sarasota, Florida, United States of America

Thomas R. Reinert

Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: pilots from Bristow Group Inc. contributed to data collection. These data may be subject to additional analysis and interpretation which may include interpretation in the context of additional data not presented here. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM HHE SMK DEF AMA MAR LIW-G RHC. Performed the experiments: HHE AMA MAR TRR. Analyzed the data: JM HHE FB CJF JAD BG SMK AMA DEF MAR. Wrote the paper: JM HHE FB CJF JAD BG SMK AMA LIW-G RHC DEF MAR TRR.