Can you help me get any research on insects that parasite on the migratory birds that includes Raptors, Buzzards, Passerine and so on?

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Mosab Nouraldein Mohammed Hamad

you will find useful information in links below:

https://web.colby.edu/mainebirds/2014/12/07/parasitoid-wasps-insect-migrations/

Article Different genetic structures revealed resident populations o...

entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/baldwin/webbugs/3005_5006/lecture%20units/.../notes11.pdf

Andrey Kovalchuk

Hi, Saber, I'm not sure if you are familiar with article of hungarian coll. in announced file where general questions of the problem of coinfluence is discussed?

The role of parasites in ecology and evolution of migration and migratory connectivity J Ornithol (2011) 152 (Suppl 1):S141–S150

If no, connect me by RG mailing or regular

[email protected]

Andrey

Simon Allen

Try also Bird-Parasite Interactions: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour.

Oxford Ornithology Series ISBN 0-19-857738-9. Might be of interest.

Saber A. Riad

Elizaveta Liberman, i asked because I was going to start a study on migratory birds across Egypt on its way from Europe to Africa and vice versa and so thank you very much for your help and cooperation.