Louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae): United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man: Citizen science data: Part 2, host associations

British Trust for Ornithology licensed bird ringers, and other citizen
scientists with an interest in entomology, collected 4365 louse flies
(also known as flat flies) and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) for the
Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project. The project expanded to include
the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man as well as the United Kingdom,
and includes a few flies from as early as 2002, as well as those from the
main study period of 2020 - 2024. The flies included in this database are
the UK Hippoboscids: louse flies: Crataerina pallida, Ornithomya
avicularia, Ornithomya chloropus, Ornithomya biloba, Stenepteryx
hirundinis, Pseudolynchia canariensis, Pseudolynchia garzettae, and Icosta
minor, and the keds* Lipoptena cervi, Hippobosca equina* and
Melophagus ovinus. This dataset included the Hippoboscid species names,
year of collection, location details to an accuracy of a 10km Ordnance
Survey grid square, and host species names. Only the year of collection is
provided, rather than a full date; locations have been blurred to 10km,
and site names are not included to protect the locations of additionally
protected and other rare species of birds.