Bird plumage brightness scores and blood parasite prevalence values of North American passerine species

Dataset with bird plumage brightness scores and blood parasite prevalence values for 114 North American passerine host species. One file contains the data table. One file contains a table with descriptions of the columns in the data table.

Note: These data were reconstructed from files used in Read & Harvey 1989 (https://doi.org/10.1038/339618a0) with column headings inferred with the help of Read 1991 (https://doi.org/10.1086/285225).