Probably not the sort of information you are looking for but a number of years ago I lived at Ewingsdale in north NSW on a small farmlet. The owner kept a couple of domestic geese and they had a clutch of about 10 goslings while I was there. One of the goslings while still quite young managed to get about 7 or 8 cattle ticks I think they were on the top of its head. Seems an odd place for them to go and there were no others anywhere else on this bird and none of the others seemed to have them either. The ticks were removed and the gosling recovered and appeared to be quite normal except for a deformed crown. Cheers Bob —–Original Message—– From: Brian Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 2:06 PM To: birding-aus@lists.vicnet.net.au Subject: [Birding-Aus] Birds that carry and/or eat ticks? Dear all, A friend is putting together an information booklet on ticks, and wants to know which birds carry and/or eat ticks? Does anyone have any information? I imagine Cattle Egrets eat cattle ticks, but I’ve never had any luck trying to feed ‘shellbacks’ to chooks or Brush-turkeys. Brian Hawkins =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
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