All parasites fascinated her: bird lice, feather mites, ticks, flukes.

He held an interest in bird lice, and became a world authority on genera from the neotropics.

They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals.

A number of ectoparasitic bird lice have been described from the species including Kurodaia cheelae.

It had been suggested that the Limpkin was close to the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae, based upon shared bird lice.

Like most birds they have specialized ectoparasitic bird lice such as Colpocephalum zerafae that are also known from other birds of prey.

Almost all domestic birds are hosts for at least one species of bird louse.

Chickens and other poultry are attacked by many kinds of bird lice.

Unlike true lice, bird lice do not carry infectious diseases.

There are over 240 species of bird lice that infest tinamous, with one individual bird recorded as hosting nine species.