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Table 2 Traits and tick-infestation of most important bird species in this study (of which at least eight tick-infested individuals were captured or at least 10 ticks were collected between March 2012 and November 2014)

From: Bird ticks in Hungary reflect western, southern, eastern flyway connections and two genetic lineages of Ixodes frontalis and Haemaphysalis concinna

Bird species characteristics

t/n

Cumulative number of tick specimens

I. ricinus

H. concinna

I. fr.

I. fe.

H. r.

Speciesa

Feeding

Migration

Weight (g)

n

L

N

L

N

L/N/F

F

N

ACR PAL

ARBOREAL

long

10–17

53

2.1

39

41

18

14

-

-

-

ACR SCH

 

10–13

30

2.6

3

10

10

56

-

-

-

ACR SCI

 

9–12

70

1.8

29

45

18

36

-

-

-

LOC LUS

 

14–17

92

4.9

1

7

206

236

-

-

-

LOC NAE

 

13–16

2

11

-

-

18

4

-

-

-

PHY COL

middle

6–11

8

1.4

5

6

-

-

-

-

-

SYL ATR

 

16–25

69

1.7

45

39

7

22

-/1/-

-

-

CAR CHL

short

25–35

30

1.7

1

47

-

1

-/-/1

1

-

COC COC

 

46–80

11

2.4

-

25

1

1

-

-

-

EMB CIT

local

27–30

2

20

-

-

38

2

-

-

-

EMB SCH

 

27–30

2

8.5

3

-

2

12

-

-

-

PAR MAJ

  

16–22

81

1.8

49

88

2

1

1/-/1

-

-

LUS LUS

GROUND

long

24–38

10

4.2

40

2

-

-

-

-

-

LUS MEG

 

17–28

24

4

61

17

18

1

-

-

-

SYL COM

 

13–20

12

1.1

5

8

-

-

-

-

3

TUR ILI

 

55–75

3

6.5

2

12

-

-

-

-

-

ERI RUB

short

16–22

318

2.3

469

195

27

5

22/15/1

-

-

PRU MOD

 

16–25

67

3.1

24

173

3

4

-

1

-

TRO TRO

 

7–12

13

1.8

15

8

-

-

-

-

-

TUR MER

 

80–140

149

4.6

137

421

47

73

-

-

-

TUR PHI

 

65–95

56

4.5

49

118

31

50

5/1/-

-

-

  1. Bold numbers indicate weight of bird species in the larger body weight category. The cumulative number of tick specimen refers to the number of larvae, nymphs or female ticks collected from all individuals of the relevant bird species during the study period
  2. Abbreviations: n number of tick-infested individuals, t/n mean intensity of tick infestation (number of all ticks divided by the number of all tick-infested birds), L larva, N nymph, F female, I. fr. - Ixodes frontalis; I. fe. - Ixodes festai; H. r. - Hyalomma rufipes
  3. aACR = Acrocephalus palustris, ACR SCH = A. schoenobaenus, ACR SCI = A. scirpaceus, LOC LUS = Locustella luscinioides, LOC NAE = L. naevia, PHY COL = Phylloscopus collibita, SYL ATR = Sylvia atricapilla, CAR CHL = Carduelis chloris, COC COC = Coccothraustes coccothraustes, EMB CIT = Emberiza citrinella, EMB SCH = E. schoeniclus, PAR MAJ = Parus major, LUS LUS = Luscinia luscinia, LUS MEG = L. megarhynchos, SYL COM = S. communis, TUR ILI = Turdus iliacus, ERI RUB = Erithacus rubecula, PRU MOD = Prunella modularis, TRO TRO = Troglodytes troglodytes, TUR MER = T. merula, TUR PHI = T. philomelos