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Table 1 Prevalence and intensity of tick infestation among birds according to their feeding preference and migration habits
| Bird species (tick infested/all) | Feeding preference (tick infested/all) | Distance of migration (tick infested/all) | Number of birds infested with … (number of ticks) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ixodes ricinus | Haemaphysalis concinna | Hyalomma sp. | |||||
| Larva | Nymph | Larva | Nymph | Larva | |||
| Luscinia megarhynchos (4/36) | Long (6/44) | 2 (5) | 4 (5) | ||||
| Luscinia luscinia (1/7) | 1 (5) | 1 (2) | |||||
| Anthus trivialis (1/1) | 1 (1) | 1 (4) | |||||
| Erithacus rubecula (13/52) | Ground level (27/115) | 7 (9) | 8 (14) | ||||
| Turdus philomelos (2/6) | Short (16/59) | 1 (3) | 2 (5) | ||||
| Turdus iliacus (1/1) | 1 (1) | ||||||
| Turdus merula (5/12) | Local (5/12) | 2 (2) | 4 (11) | ||||
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus (15/129) | 2 (3) | 12 (14) | 2 (2) | 3 (4) | |||
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (4/90) | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | |||||
| Locustella luscinioides (1/26) | Long (23/283) | 1 (5) | |||||
| Sylvia communis (2/19) | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | |||||
| Phylloscopus sibilatrix (1/19) | Above ground level (41/771) | 1 (1) | |||||
| Sylvia atricapilla (12/372) | Middle (13/464) | 6 (10) | 8 (8) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||
| Phylloscopus collybita (1/92) | 1 (1) | ||||||
| Coccothraustes coccothraustes (2/18) | Short (5/24) | 2 (2) | |||||
| Prunella modularis (3/6) | 1 (1) | 3 (7) | 1 (5) | ||||
