@article {96501, title = {Parasite island syndromes in the context of nidicolous ectoparasites: Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) in wild passerine birds from Azores Archipelago}, journal = {Parasitology International}, volume = {89}, year = {2022}, month = {Aug-01-2022}, pages = {102564}, abstract = {

Island syndrome, previously established for isolation process of insular vertebrates\&$\#$39; populations, have been adapted to insular parasites communities, termed parasite island syndromes. In this work, were studied for the first time the insular syndromes for nidicolous ectoparasites of the bird species, Turdus merula, Sylvia atricapilla, Fringilla coelebs and Erithacus rubecula from Azores and the mainland Portugal. Flea species were only recorded on Azorean birds, namely Dasypsyllus gallinulae and Ctenocephalides felis felis, known as not host-specific parasites. In the absence of shared flea species between mainland and islands birds, a comparison among our fleas prevalence to Azores Islands and mainland fleas prevalence, recorded to others European studies, showed that Azorean host populations undergo higher prevalence than the mainland one. This result was consistent with parasite island syndromes predictions recorded to ectoparasites, hippoboscid flies and chewing lice, that fleas have higher prevalence on the Azores Islands compared to mainland Portugal. However, our results provide a new perspective to parasite island syndromes assumptions, namely in the context of nidicolous ectoparasites that spend only brief periods on the hosts\&$\#$39; body.

}, keywords = {Azores Islands, fleas, Nidicolous ectoparasites, Parasite island syndromes, Portugal, wild birds}, issn = {1383-5769}, doi = {10.1016/j.parint.2022.102564}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1383576922000289}, author = {Andr{\'e} Filipe Ven Tom{\'a}s and Isabel Pereira da Fonseca and Thijs Valkenburg and Maria Teresa Rebelo} } @article {96330, title = {A Survey of the Ectoparasites Found on Wild Birds in Northwest Turkey}, journal = {Indian Journal of Animal Research}, volume = {57}, year = {2022}, month = {Mar-12-2022}, pages = {1059-1065}, abstract = {

Background: Turkey is home to various resident and migratory wild bird species. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ectoparasites found on 188 injured or rescued resident and migratory wild birds from Bursa and surroundings between 2015 and 2019.

Methods: Sampled birds were examined for different ectoparasites and all of the collected parasites were placed into tubes containing 70\% ethyl alcohol. After mounting onto slides or fixing onto a plate, each parasite was identified to species using a light or stereo microscope.

Result: Results revealed that 88 (46.8\%) of the examined wild birds were infested with one or two of 3 different species of ectoparasites. The species identified were 38 lice, three ticks and two flies. The lice were highly prevalent (40.4\%) species than the flies (2.1\%) and ticks (2.1\%). The results also first geographically documented the lice and ked fly species as follows, with additional new host records: Fulicoffula gallinula and Pseudomenapon pilosum in the common moorhens (Gallinula chloropus); Ciconiphilus decimfasciatus in the grey heron (Ardea cinerea); Saemundssonia clayae in the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola); Ardeicola ixobrychae in the common little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) and the ked fly as Ornithophila metallica in the Eurasian magpies (Pica pica) in Turkey. The study results provided valuable data on the ectoparasites living on migratory and resident bird species during their migration throughout northwest Turkey. Further research on the related pathogens that these ectoparasites harbor is in need.

}, keywords = {Actornitophilus piceus, Ardea alba, Chroicocephalus genei, Comatomenapon elongatum, ectoparasite, Ixobrychus minutus, Larus cachinnans, Meropsiella apiastri, Pseudomenapon pilosum, Survey, wild birds}, issn = {0976-0555, 0367-6722}, doi = {10.18805/ijar.bf-1474}, url = {https://www.arccjournals.com/journal/indian-journal-of-animal-research/BF-1474}, author = {Girisgin, Oya and Girisgin, Ahmet Onur and N. Cimenlikaya and B. Saygin} }