The slender pigeon louse, Columbicola columbae, is an annoying ectoparasite of pigeons.
The aims of present work were to study the prevalence of lice infestations among pigeons in …

This checklist includes taxa of chewing lice from published records, old collections, and
recently collected material from birds and mammals in Slovakia. Data from established …

The crested ibis has survived a dramatic population decline during the twentieth century,
declining from a range across much of China, Japan, the Korean peninsula and nearby …

When a species colonizes a new area, it has the potential to bring with it an array of smaller-
bodied symbionts. Rock Pigeons (Columba livia Gmelin) have colonized most of Canada …

External parasites or ectoparasites, are arthropods that live on or in the skin or feathers,
using the host as both shelter and food source. Ectoparasites can have significant impacts …

Lice (Insecta, Phthiraptera) are permanent ectoparasites of birds and mammals. Despite
having a rich avifauna in Iran, limited number of studies have been conducted on lice fauna …

Phoresy is a biologically mechanical phenomena where an immobile organism hitches on a
other mobile organism to translocate. This behaviour is not studied very well on the field …

Present study reports the effect of deltamethrin against louse infestation in domestic
pigeons. In this study, twelve pigeons infested with Columbicola columbae louse were …

Abstract Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) have been examined on
common wild and captive birds of Hyderabad during 2013-2015, mainly from urban areas …

The biological and ecological factors experienced across the lifespan by the bird hosts affect
the seasonal dynamics of their ectoparasites. The seasonal population of Columbicola …