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Jennifer Chipault

Jennifer Chipault is a Disease Data Specialist at the National Wildlife Health Center.

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WHISPers

WHISPers, the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system, is a partner-driven, web-based repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events. The information, such as county-level locations, onset and ending dates, species affected, and diagnosis has generously been shared with the USGS...
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center
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WHISPers

WHISPers, the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system, is a partner-driven, web-based repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events. The information, such as county-level locations, onset and ending dates, species affected, and diagnosis has generously been shared with the USGS...
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Environmental conditions synchronize waterbird mortality events in the Great Lakes: Data

During 2010 to 2013, waterbird mortality surveillance programs used a shared protocol for shoreline walking surveys performed June to November at three areas in northern Lake Michigan. Timing (to day) and location (to transect) of carcass deposition and species affected were summarized. Using these observations, the broader goal of our study was to quantify the spatial synchrony of avian mortality
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center

Environmental conditions synchronize waterbird mortality events in the Great Lakes

Since the 1960s, periodic outbreaks of avian botulism type E have contributed to large-scale die-offs of thousands of waterbirds throughout the Great Lakes of the United States. In recent years, these events have become more common and widespread. Occurring during the summer and autumn months, the prevalence of these die-offs varies across years and is often associated with years of warmer lake te
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fish & Wildlife Disease (unpublished), National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly wildlife mortality report: January 2016 to March 2016

No abstract available
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Gut content analysis of Lake Michigan waterbirds in years with avian botulism type E mortality, 2010–2012

Waterbird die-offs caused by Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type E (BoNT/E) have occurred sporadically in the Great Lakes since the late 1960s, with a recent pulse starting in the late 1990s. In recent die-offs, round gobies (Neogobius melanostomus) have been implicated as vectors for the transfer of BoNT/E to fish-eating birds due to the round goby invasion history and their importance as prey.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly wildlife mortality report: July 2015 to September 2015

No abstract available.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly wildlife mortality report: April 2015 to June 2015

No abstract available.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly mortality report: January 2015 to March 2015

No abstract available.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Avian botulism type E in waterbirds of Lake Michigan, 2010–2013

During 2010 to 2013, waterbird mortality surveillance programs used a shared protocol for shoreline walking surveys performed June to November at three areas in northern Lake Michigan. In 2010 and 2012, 1244 total carcasses (0.8 dead bird/km walked) and 2399 total carcasses (1.2 dead birds/km walked), respectively, were detected. Fewer carcasses were detected in 2011 (353 total carcasses, 0.2 dead
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly mortality report: October 2014 to December 2014

No abstract available.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly wildlife mortality report: April 2014 to June 2014

No abstract available.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

USGS National Wildlife Health Center quarterly mortality report: October 2013 to December 2013

No abstract available.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

Fine-scale habitat use of reintroduced black-footed ferrets on prairie dog colonies in New Mexico

Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) are among the most endangered animals in North America. Reintroductions of captive-born ferrets onto prairie dog (Cynomys spp.) colonies are crucial to the conservation of the species. In September 2007, captive-born ferrets were released on a black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colony at the Vermejo Park Ranch, New Mexico. Ferret kits experiment
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Nighttime aboveground movements by prairie dogs on colonies inhabited by black-footed ferrets

We describe observations of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) emerging aboveground at night, apparently in response to wild-born and captive-born black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) in South Dakota and New Mexico, respectively. We also discuss other similar observations accumulated on black-tailed prairie dog colonies as well as observations of white-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
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