Table 1.

Primary dataset comprising 264 Malagasy bird blood samples from different avian taxa.

family	species	english name	N
Acrocephalidae
	Nesillas typica	Madagascar Brush Warbler	84
	Acrocephalus newtoni	Madagascar Swamp Warbler	3
Ploceidae
	Ploceus nelicourvi	Nelicourvi Weaver	63
Muscicapidae
	Copsychus albospecularis	Madagascar Magpie Robin	57
	Monticola sharpei	Forest Rock-Thrush	5
	Saxicola torquatus	African Stonechat	52

Scientific names of family and species as well as the associated English name of the bird species and the total number of samples (N) are given.