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[RESEARCH Hilton Pond <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Birders on various listservs recently have posted comments and/or 
photos of birds infested with ticks. In the past few days here at 
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History I personally have 
encountered two Common Grackles and a Cedar Waxwing with one tick 
each.

I would appreciate your responding to me off-list if you have 
encountered any birds this winter with ticks, either through 
sightings or by finding dead birds. Please indicate date and location 
of encounter, bird species, number of ticks on the bird, and 
location(s) of the tick or ticks (crown, nape, eyelid, neck, etc.). 
I'll post the results of the survey in an upcoming edition of "This 
Week at Hilton Pond."

Based on my own encounters and other reports, it does indeed appear 
there is a significant increase in tick infestations this winter, at 
least in the Carolina Piedmont.

Thanks in advance,

BILL
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RESEARCH PROGRAM
c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845

Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net):
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org
"Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org

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