Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership-event reporting system (WHISPers)

WHISPers stands for Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system. It is a web-based repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) events. The system possesses a searchable archive of wildlife mortality and morbidity event data that is available to the public. The information is opportunistically collected and does not reflect all the mortality events that occur in North America.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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identifier USGS:581deaed-18e7-45b1-8935-1ea7342ba7e5
metadata_type geospatial
modified 20210429
old-spatial -172.45, 13.23, -64.57, 71.83
publisher U.S. Geological Survey
publisher_hierarchy Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey
resource-type Dataset
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theme {geospatial}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • alabama
  • alaska
  • american-samoa
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • amphibian
  • arizona
  • arkansas
  • avian
  • avian-cholera
  • avian-influenza
  • bird
  • botulism
  • california
  • canada
  • ckan
  • colorado
  • connecticut
  • delaware
  • disease
  • district-of-columbia
  • endangered-species
  • epizootic
  • florida
  • geo
  • georgia
  • geoss
  • guam
  • hawaii
  • idaho
  • illinois
  • indiana
  • iowa
  • kansas
  • kentucky
  • lead-poisoning
  • louisiana
  • maine
  • mammal
  • marine-invertebrate
  • maryland
  • massachusetts
  • mexico
  • michigan
  • minnesota
  • mississippi
  • missouri
  • montana
  • morbidity
  • mortality
  • national
  • nebraska
  • nevada
  • new-hampshire
  • new-jersey
  • new-mexico
  • new-york
  • north-america
  • north-carolina
  • north-dakota
  • northern-mariana-islands
  • ohio
  • oklahoma
  • oregon
  • pennsylvania
  • puerto-rico
  • reptile
  • rhdv2
  • rhode-island
  • south-carolina
  • south-dakota
  • tennessee
  • texas
  • u-s-virgin-islands
  • united-states
  • usgs-581deaed-18e7-45b1-8935-1ea7342ba7e5
  • utah
  • vermont
  • virginia
  • washington
  • west-virginia
  • wildlife
  • wildlife-health
  • wisconsin
  • wyoming
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer WHISPers
maintainer_email whispers@usgs.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T05:00:13.628989
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T05:00:13.628994
notes WHISPers stands for Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system. It is a web-based repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) events. The system possesses a searchable archive of wildlife mortality and morbidity event data that is available to the public. The information is opportunistically collected and does not reflect all the mortality events that occur in North America.
num_resources 2
num_tags 85
title Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership-event reporting system (WHISPers)