Table 1.

Number of male and female birds captured in Madagascar and Cape Verde

	Madagascar		Cape Verde
	Females	Males	Females	Males
Cream-coloured courser			9	11	20
Kentish plover			10	10	20
Kittlitz’s plover	29a	29			58
Madagascar plover	28	27			55
White-fronted plover	28	27a			55
Total bird sampled	85	83	19	21	208

Three Madagascar plovers, two white-fronted plovers and two Kittlitz’s plovers were sampled twice along the study period

^aOne individual was infected in both species by Plasmodium