black-legged

The parasites are carried by the common deer tick, also known as the black-legged tick.

Tick-borne parasite may be creeping into blood supply 2011

The parasites are carried by the common deer tick, also known as the black-legged tick.

Tick-borne parasite may be creeping into blood supply 2011

Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.

Where Birds Rule the Earth 2009

Dainty black-legged kittiwakes and glaucous gulls flew in swirling clouds overhead while black-and-white thick-billed and common murres skimmed low across the water, looking like tuxedo-clad squadrons on maneuvers.

Where Birds Rule the Earth 2009

The black-legged tick is responsible for spreading Lyme disease, but can also spread other tick-borne illnesses.

Lyme Disease 2010

There are two types of ticks that are known to carry the disease: A deer tick is brown and leathery but becomes glossy black when engorged and the western black-legged tick is found on the Pacific Coast.

Brianne DiSylvester: 7 Labor Day Dog Dangers to Avoid Brianne DiSylvester 2010

So, in the late afternoon, I followed the map and arrived in Patsy's village at dusk and came across a long black-legged figure thumbing a lift.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Daily energy expenditure and energy utilization of free-ranging black-legged kittiwakes.

Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota 2009

Also present are Zaire clawless otter Aonyx congica, brush-tailed porcupines Atherurus africanus, bongo antelope Tragelaphus euryceros, Sitatunga antelope T. spekei, black-legged mongoose Bdeogale nigripes, black mongoose Crossarchus alexandri, and marsh mongoose Atilax paludinosus.

Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008

Large concentrations of seabirds congregate in the warmer coastal margins, including the northern fulmar, thick-billed murres, black-legged kitiwakes, common ringed plover, hoary redpoll and snow bunting.

Arctic Cordillera ecoregion (CEC) 2008