Publications

aerobic cloacal and pharyngeal bacterial flora in six species of free-living birds.	the purpose of this study was to investigate the culturable aerobic pharyngeal and cloacal bacterial flora of free-living birds, to determine the physiological bacterial microbiota, to identify possible interactions between feeding behaviour and the composition of the pharyngeal and cloacal microflora and to investigate the occurrence of pathogenic bacteria.	2014	25176477
syringophilid mites (acari: syringophilidae) associated with the rails (aves: rallidae) and a key to the species of the genus rafapicobia skoracki, 2011.	the fauna of quill mites of the family syringophilidae lavoipierre, 1953 (acari: prostigmata cheyletoidea) parasitising birds of the family rallidae vigors (gruiformes) is updated. a new species, rafapicobia melzeri n. sp. (subfamily picobiinae), is described from four host species: rallus aquaticus linnaeus (type-host) from germany, pardirallus sanguinolentus (swainson) from chile, porzana porzana (linnaeus) from france and p. parva (scopoli) from kirghizia. the new species is most similar to r ...	2014	24935125