Roadkill blang#

[Retired Educator]

Many years ago I was driving back from MT to Bismarck and there was some water in the ditch on interstate. It was spring and a pair of ducks took off from one side of the road and I clipped the hen which was flying behind the drake and slightly lower, just with the top corner of my windshield. It spun around a couple times and landed flapping on the interstate behind me, which I could see in my rear view. Drake did a 180 and immediately landed by its partner on the road just before a semi flattened them both. Didnt appear it even attempted to take off as the truck went over them. Kinda crazy, true love I guess.... ;:;badidea

With mallards and the spring breeding season, I'm pretty sure "love" had very little to do with it.

 

[dean nelson]

observing two cases of this in our little sample group is proof that banding screws with a duck's ability to fly - stop this midieval practice now

Interestingly enough they've actually had some legitimate problems with this especially with birds with neck collars. They have a nasty habit of icing up during snow storms and if I remember correctly quite a few Birds crashed to the ground in the April blizzard of 97 out in the Red River Valley with a couple pounds of ice around their neck. Talk about a band hunters wet dream to just walk around and pick them up.