Table 5. Forage ratio for non-avian species in the selected studies.
A result equal 1 represents opportunistic feeding utilization as for chance, while one greater than 1 or lower than 1 represents preference and avoidance, respectively. Host species are reported in alphabetic order. Species that are significantly preferred and/or avoided are reported in bold.
| Non-bird species | Kothera, 2020 [37] | Hannon, 2019 [33] | Thiemann, 2011 [39] | Hamer, 2009 [22] | Mendenhall, 2012 [34] | Estrada-Franco, 2020 [38] | Mackay, 2010 [40] | Kilpatrick, 2006 [36] | Rizzoli, 2015 [35] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cx. pipiens complex | Cx. restuans | Cx. | Cx. tarsalis—Late summer | Cx. tarsalis—Winter | Cx. pipiens | Cx. restuans | Cx. erraticus | Cx. quinquefasciatus | Cx. quinquefasciatus | Cx. pipiens and Cx. restuans | Cx. pipiens | |
| quinquefasciatus | ||||||||||||
| Capybara | 12.30 | |||||||||||
| Domestic Cat | 0.20 | |||||||||||
| Domestic Cow | 52.57 | 0.45 | ||||||||||
| Domestic Dog | 9.86 | 5.64 | ||||||||||
| Domestic Goat | 0.74 | |||||||||||
| Domestic Horse | 6.57 | 0.99 | 0.52 | |||||||||
| Domestic Pig | 0.80 | |||||||||||
| Texas Tortoise | 0.40 | |||||||||||
| Virginia Opossum | 4.83 | |||||||||||
| Human | 5.08 | 0.24 | ||||||||||