First Records of the Parasitic Flies Carnus hemapterus and Ornithophila gestroi on Lesser Kestrels (Falco naumanni) in Mongolia

Influence of colony traits on ectoparasite infestation in birds breeding in mixed-species colonies

“…It also revealed that colony composition, rather than colony size or density, influenced the infestation of the most common ectoparasite in these assemblages. Carnus hemapterus can be found from North America to Europe and Asia infesting a wide range of bird species, so the implications of this study go beyond our study area (Grimaldi, 1997;Brake, 2011;Ganbold et al 2020). The association between farmland buildings or artificial nests and secondary cavity nesters such as lesser kestrels and rollers is common in other European counties, such as Spain and Italy (Campobello et al 2012;Negro et al 2020).…”

Checklist of Hippoboscidae (Diptera) from Romania

“…Tribe Olfersiini Maa, 1969 Crataerina pallida (Olivier in Latreille, 1811) Published record: Petersen (2004 Comments: A non-native species in Europe, distributed in the Afrotropical region and southern Palaearctic, with a recent increase in records in Europe (Droz & Haenni, 2011;Zittra et al, 2020;Gaponov & Tewelde, 2020;Kock, 2000). Iduna pallida represents a new host species for O. turdi.…”

“…Comment: Not common and non-native (in Europe) parasite species of Falconidae and Accipitridae (Nartshuk & Matyukhin, 2019;Balgooyen et al, 1999;Ganbold et al, 2020;Jentzsch et al, 2021b). P. trochilus from the family Phylloscopidae represents a new host species (including the family).…”