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This study was carried out in four stations of the Mitidja plain (North of Algeria), specifically Blida, Algiers centre, El- Harrach and Boufarik during the year 2021 and consisted of the search for cestodes in columbids. Using the drop-box trapping method, six species of columbids were captured; the Wood Pigeon Columbapalumbus, the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto, the Feral Pigeon Columba livia domestica, the Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur, the Palm Dove Spilopelia senegalensis and the Barbary Dove Streptopelia risoria. After isolating the cestodes from the digestive tract of these birds, we stained them with borax carmine. Of the 36 individuals columbids examined, 13 were infected with cestodes (P= 36.11%). We recorded the presence of four species of the genre Raillietina (P = 80%) with R. tetragona, R. cesticillus, R. echinobothrida, Raillietina sp. and a single species of the genre Coutugnia (P = 14%) with C. digonopora and finally the genre Passerilepis[P = 5.83%) with P. zimbebel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]