Research Article
Survey of Tick-Borne Zoonotic Agents in Ixodes Ticks Carried by Wild Passerines during Postbreeding Migration through Italy
Table 2
Table reporting the number of ticks found per single bird, depending on the considered bird species.
| | Number of ticks per bird | |
| Infested birds | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 11 | Total | Coal tit (Periparus ater) | 1 | | | | | | | | | 1 | Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) | 5 | | | | | | | | | 5 | Common blackbird (Turdus merula) | 11 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 37 | Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) | 9 | | 1 | | 2 | | 1 | | | 13 | European robin (Erithacus rubecula) | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | 23 | Water pipit (Anthus spinoletta) | 1 | | | | | | | | | 1 | Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) | 4 | | | | | | | | | 4 | Redwing (Turdus iliacus) | 2 | | 2 | | | | | | | 4 | Total | 49 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 88 |
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