“…This bird has often been investigated for ecto and endoparasites, since the species is adapted either to wild or urban environmental conditions, commonly sharing food with sparrows and pigeons in the cities, in residential areas and mainly in the vicinities of pet shops, where captive exotic birds and small rodents are maintained for sale; thus, with the possibility of acting as reservoirs and carriers of pathogenic agents mainly to Galliformes hosts from backyard flocks or other avian hosts of economic importance, specimens of C. talpacoti are referred in surveys of acari ( Arzua and BarrosBattesti, 1999;Price et al, 1999) protozoa (Adriano et al, 2000;Adriano and Cordeiro, 2001 ) viruses (Ferreira et al;1994;Pereira et al, 2001) and helminths, that are the main target of this investigation.…”