Bird plumage brightness scores and blood parasite prevalence values of Central European passerine species

<p>Dataset with bird plumage brightness scores and blood parasite prevalence values for 113&nbsp;Central European passerine host species. One file contains the data table. One file contains a table with descriptions of the columns in the data table.</p> <p>Note: These data were reconstructed from files used in Read &amp; Harvey 1989 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/339618a0">https://doi.org/10.1038/339618a0</a>) with column headings inferred with the help of&nbsp;Read 1991 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/285225">https://doi.org/10.1086/285225</a>).</p>