wildbird, avian flu

 Here are the primary publicly available datasets and data streams that align directly with the domain, variables, and framework presented in this paper:

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1. Avian & Poultry Surveillance Datasets

• USDA APHIS Wild Bird Avian Influenza Surveillance Data

  • Provider: USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

  • Description: Official U.S. surveillance detections of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in wild birds. Tracks wild bird sampling events aggregated by county, state, detection date, virus subtype (e.g., H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b), and host species.

• USDA APHIS Commercial and Backyard Poultry Outbreak Confirmations

  • Provider: USDA APHIS

  • Description: Records of confirmed HPAI cases in commercial poultry operations and backyard flocks across the U.S. Includes confirmation dates, state/county, flock type (e.g., turkey, egg-layer, broiler), and estimated flock numbers impacted.

• Open Avian Flu Dataset (OAFD)

  • Provider: Zenodo Open Repository

  • Description: A curated open dataset aggregating geographic, temporal, host species, and strain-level outbreak observations for global and national avian influenza tracking.

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2. Wildlife & Wild Bird Migration Datasets

• eBird Basic Dataset (EBD)

  • Provider: Cornell Lab of Ornithology

  • Description: Massive crowdsourced observational dataset tracking wild bird species occurrences, spatial distribution, relative abundance, and seasonal flyway migrations at high spatiotemporal resolution.

• USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) Wildlife Health Information Sharing Network (WHISPers)

  • Provider: U.S. Geological Survey

  • Description: Partner repository tracking wildlife mortality and disease events across North America, including waterbird and waterfowl morbidity/mortality surveillance.

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3. Environmental, Weather, & Agricultural Features

• PRISM Climate Data (PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University)

  • Continuous spatial climate datasets covering temperature, precipitation, vapor pressure deficit, and dew point across U.S. counties for temporal risk modeling.

• USDA NASS Census of Agriculture & Cropland Data Layer (CDL) (USDA NASS)

  • High-resolution spatial land cover data, poultry density distributions, farm counts, and county-level agricultural inventory statistics.

• gNSSGO / SSURGO Soil & Terrain Data (USDA NRCS)

  • Soil characteristics, terrain slope, elevation, and hydrologic conditions across U.S. counties.