| species and abundance of ectoparasitic flies (diptera) in pied flycatcher nests in fennoscandia. | birds host several ectoparasitic fly species with negative effects on nestling health and reproductive output, and with the capability of transmitting avian blood parasites. information on the abundance and distribution of the ectoparasitic fly genera ornithomya (hippoboscidae) and protocalliphora (calliphoridae) in northern europe is still generally poor, and we thus explored their geographic range and occurrence of these flies in the nests of a common avian model species, the pied flycatcher f ... | 2015 | 26691851 |
| the parasite fauna of the gyrfalcon (falco rusticolus) in iceland. | we examined 46 gyrfalcon (falco rusticolus) carcasses from iceland for parasites, including 29 first-year birds and 17 second-year birds and older. endoparasites observed were the trematodes cryptocotyle lingua (prevalence 8%), cryptocotyle concavum (4%), and strigea sp. (8%); the cestode mesocestoides sp. (27%); and the nematodes eucoleus contortus (76%) and serratospiculum guttatum (7%). ectoparasites included the astigmatan mite dubininia accipitrina (47%), a mesostigmatan rhynonyssid mite (4 ... | 2015 | 26280881 |