Feather hole
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feather-hole-182-413553
title:
Feather hole
text:
Feather holes often characteristically occur on wing and tail feathers of some small-bodied species of passerines. In the case of barn swallows, it was suggested that the holes were feeding traces of avian lice, either Machaerilaemus malleus and/or Myrsidea rustica. Hole counts were shown to be highly repeatable, and thus counts appeared to be useful measures to quantify the intensity of infestation. Since then, a number of influential papers have been published on the evolutionary, ecological,
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_hole
date created:
2009-08-17T12:13:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T01:37:53Z
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13
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