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| Title: | Infestation with Ixodes ricinus ticks on migrating passerine birds in Lithuania and Norway |
| Authors: | Paulauskas, Algimantas
Rosef, Olav
Galdikaite, Egle
Radzijevskaja, Jana |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publishers version: | http://www.biology.lv/faili/Acta_Biologica/pdf/Acta_Biologica_9_1/1.pdf |
| Abstract: | Ticks are known to carry several pathogenic agents of human diseases. To define the role of
migrating birds as host and disseminators of ticks in Lithuania and Norway we analysed
immature stage of ticks feeding on different passerine bird species. During April-May of 2006-2007 and August-September of 2008, migrating passerine birds were captured at ornithological
stations in southern Norway and in Lithuania respectively. In Norway were investigated 152
passerine birds representing 26 species, in Lithuania - 36 birds of 14 species. A total of 668
immature stages of I. ricinus ticks were collected. The most infested bird species in Norway
were Starling (Sturnus vulgaris ), Icterine Warblers (Hippolais icterina) and Blackbird (Turdus
merula) and in Lithuania Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) and Trush Nightingale
(Luscinia luscinia). In Norway the total bird infestation rate was 4.1, but in Lithuania birds
were 2.4 times less infested. The infestation with nymphal stages of I. ricinus was more
frequent than the larval. The results of the study support previous observations that migratory
birds play an important role in the dispersal of I. ricinus ticks |
| Keywords: | Passerine migrating birds
Infestation
Ticks
Ixodes ricinus |
| Publisher: | Daugavpils Universitāte |
| Document type: | Journal article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2282/1049 |
| Appears in Collections: | Institutt for natur-, helse- og miljøvernfag
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