Twelve Days of the Wildlife Health Event Reporter
Day Two: Hark! I Received an Alert from WHER!
As described earlier, the Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) is an online reporting tool that we invite everyone to use to report their sightings of injured, sick and dead wildlife. It not only accepts your observations of wildlife health events - the system is also a giver! WHER provides information back to anyone who is interested in viewing the data collected since 2010.
One of the many ways you can keep on top of what has been reported to WHER is through its alerting options. Currently, you can choose to have reports delivered to you by email or RSS. Email alerts are delivered daily, but only if reports were made the previous day. For the more eager audience, RSS subscriptions deliver data to users nearly immediately when a report is made to WHER.
Alert Options
Now that we have your attention, we're sure you want to know how to sign up so that you can see where wildlife health reports are being made - like what is being reported in your area. If you want to know about ALL the events reported to WHER, select one of these options:
- GeoRSS [alerts are available in near-real time]
- GeoRSS in Google Maps [plot near-real time alerts on a Google Map]
- Email Alerts [alerts summarized daily]
What are Your Ideas for Interesting Alerts?
Once you start receiving WHER alerts, you will probably start dreaming about what other kinds of alerts from WHER would be useful for your needs, such as an alert for a specific species or family of interest, or by the number of animals involved in an event. We invite you to check out a mock up we've created for expanding the current alerting system. The major upgrades would include more fine-tuned filters by species, location, or size - as well as deliver alerts via text messages. Email us your ideas or general feedback on the alerts to us at wher@wdin.org.
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Courtesy of the Australian Wildlife Health Network (Check out their pretty new website!)An atypical genotype of Toxoplasma gondii as a cause of mortality in Hector's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus hectori)
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