VOOUS KH (1959) Short announcements: High flight of migratory duck Anas platyrhynchos. LIMOSA 32 (1): 70-70.

male duck, identified by a feather of the flanks or the mantle as most probably a mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) , crashed ag ainst an airplane in the night of April 2, 1958 at 21.20 h. local time, 40 km S.S.W. of Frankfurt on Main, W. Germany, at 2700 m above sea level

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