Blood parasites of British birds and notes on their seasonal occurrence at two rural sites in England.
During 1972 and 1973, 309 blood smears were taken from 281 birds caught in Yorkshire and in Hampshire. A seasonal variation in the prevalence of blood parasites with a peak in May was observed. The percentage of birds infected in different months ranged from 3.8 to 15.9. A number of new host records for avian haemoprotozoa were found and these, together with previously unpublished results, are presented in a table which brings the check-list of known British hosts up to date. Details are given of hippoboscid files collected from the birds.
D000818:Animals; D016782:Apicomplexa; D001717:Birds / Q000469:parasitology*; D010856:Columbidae; D004739:England; D010961:Plasmodium; D014345:Trypanosoma