TABLE 2.
List of birds not carrying ticks or B. burgdorferi sensu lato-infected ticks
| Bird species | No. of birds | No. of ticks
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| Tick infestation
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Tested ticks
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Positive ticks
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| Larvae | Nymphs | Larvae | Nymphs | Larvae | Nymphs | ||
| Aegithalos caudatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (long-tailed tit) | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Coccothraustes coccothraustes (Linnaeus, 1758) (hawfinch) | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) (great spotted woodpecker) | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Muscicapa striata Pallas, 1764 (spotted flycatcher) | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Passer montanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (tree sparrow) | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Phylloscopus collybita (Vieillot, 1819) (chiffchaff) | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Parus caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) (blue tit) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) (European robin) | 10 | 63 | 5 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Fringilla coelebs (Linnaeus, 1758) (chaffinch) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Luscinia megarhynchos (Brehm, 1831) (nightingale) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Parus montanus (Baldenstein, 1827) (willow tit) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Parus palustris (Linnaeus, 1758) (marsh tit) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (house sparrow) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sylvia atricapilla (Linnaeus, 1758) (blackcap) | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |