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 birds12345671011Total
Coal tit (Periparus ater)11
Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)55
Common blackbird (Turdus merula)117444141137
Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)912113
European robin (Erithacus rubecula)1651123
Water pipit (Anthus spinoletta)11
Song thrush (Turdus philomelos)44
Redwing (Turdus iliacus)224
Total4912856151188