Table 4.

Estimates of detection probabilities using molecular techniques for tissue sample collections made from northern pintails wintering in the Central Valley of California through the application of an occupancy modeling approach.

	2006–2007 muscle	2011–2012 muscle	2011–2012 blood
Leucocytozoon	0.873	0.939	0.807
95% lower confidence limit	0.798	0.845	0.671
95% upper confidence limit	0.923	0.978	0.896
Haemoproteus	1.000	1.000	0.800
95% lower confidence limit	1.000	1.000	0.266
95% upper confidence limit	1.000	1.000	0.978
Plasmodium	0.500	0.667	0.890
95% lower confidence limit	0.155	0.111	0.479
95% upper confidence limit	0.845	0.970	0.986