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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 |
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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/ .
James Tate, Jr., Ph.D. 2031 Huidekoper Pl NW Washington, DC 20007 T 202-841-2056 m("tate-tate.us","jim");"> Research Associate Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird Center Senior Fellow and Director Ecological Economics and Ethics Program Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Chapter Coordinator, DC-01 Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry Board of Directors City Wildlife Washington, DC Board of Directors Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chapter Izaak Walton League of America “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E.B. White |
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