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FW: Birds that carry and/or eat ticks?

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Subject: FW: Birds that carry and/or eat ticks?
From: "Jim Tate" <>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 01:12:39 -0700
Many wild birds have been found to carry and eat ticks.  A quick "google" will reveal hundreds of citations.

Birds carrying the larval ticks that cause Lyme's disease have become the subject of many studies in the US.  Here is one example: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/srhonorsprog/142/ .

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