Survey of Tick-Borne Zoonotic Agents in Ixodes Ticks Carried by Wild Passerines during Postbreeding Migration through Italy
Table 1
Descriptive data about infested migratory birds.
Bird speciesa
Infested/ringed
Infested/ringed
Infested/ringed
2019
2020
Total
Infestation rate (%)
Water pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
1/42
0/7
1/49
2.0 (CI: 0.1–10.9)
European robin (Erithacus rubecula)
11/776
12/197
23/973
2.4 (CI: 1.5–3.5)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
29/67
8/20
37/87
42.5 (CI: 32.0–53.6)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
3/65
1/12
4/77
5.2 (CI: 1.4–12.8)
Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
3/14
1/1
4/15
26.4 (CI: 7.8–55.1)
Coal tit (Periparus ater)
0/884
1/13
1/897
0.1 (CI: 0–0.6)
Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
3/104
2/37
5/141
3.6 (CI: 1.2–8.1)
Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
13/90
0/3
13/93
14.0 (CI: 7.7–22.7)
Total
63/2042
25/290
88/2332
2.6b
Notes: aData about ringed but NOT infested species are reported in the Supplementary 3. bInfestation rate counting total captured birds and not only infested species. The partial (2019 and 2020) and total count of ringed and infested animals are reported, together with the infestation rate of each bird species and total.
