| Abstract: | Avian lice may link fledgling Brown-headed Cowbirds to the host species that raised them. Lice, if host-specific and transferred to nestling cowbirds, could serve to identify the principal host species raising cowbirds in a local area. This approach of trapping cowbird fledglings in a feeding flock, then collecting and identifying the lice they carry is economical. The alternative requires a team of people to locate large numbers of parasitized host nests. We trapped 250 cowbird fledglings during June-August 1994 on Patuxent Research Center, and from them we collected 426 lice identified as representing 6 genera and 12 species. We. also collected and identified 347 lice from 30 known host species that were mist-netted on our Center. The lice found on cowbird fledglings in this population can be linked to Wood Thrush, Red-eyed Vireo, Common Yellowthroat, Rufous-sided Towhee, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, and Tree sparrow, based on this study and also on published reports. |
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| Citation Author: | Hahn, D C; Osenton, P C; Price, R W |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
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| Citation Language: | English |
| Citation Larger Work Title: | Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 106 (abstract) |
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| Citation Public Comments: | 80th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America on the Transdisciplinary Nature of Ecology, Snowbird, Utah, USA, July 30-August 3, 1995. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Using lice to identify cowbird hosts; 1995; Article; Journal; Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America; Hahn, D C; Osenton, P C; Price, R W |
| Citation Start Page: | 106 (abs) |
| Citation Volume: | 76 |
| Citation Year: | 1995 |
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| Text: | Using lice to identify cowbird hosts; 1995; Article; Journal; Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America; Hahn, D C; Osenton, P C; Price, R W |
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