Abstract

Abstract Five species of native birds were examined for the presence of the New Zealand cattle tick, Haemaphysalis longicomis. In this small sample, only the North Island brown kiwi, Apteryx australis mantelli and the banded rail, Rallus philippensis assimilis were infested with the tick. These constitute new host records.

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