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