“…This yielded 131 dead birds (54 species) from which lice, hippoboscid flies, and mites were collected. For the lice and flies, we use NGS barcoding (Srivathsan et al, 2021;Srivathsan, Hartop, et al, 2019;Srivathsan, Nagarajan, & Meier, 2019;Wong et al, 2017;Yeo et al, 2018) to address the taxonomic impediments that interfere with so much natural history research. The specimens were sorted into putative species based on NGS barcodes which can now be obtained at low cost for thousands of specimens within days (Srivathsan et al, 2018(Srivathsan et al, , 2021Srivathsan, Hartop, et al, 2019;Srivathsan, Nagarajan, & Meier, 2019;Wang et al, 2018;Yeo et al, 2018).…”