BIRDS IN FLIGHT
THE FASTEST SPEEDS. The excuse of the hunter who said that the ducks he missed went by him at one hundred miles an hour has been explored by statistics on speed of birds compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture. Estimates on the speed of ducks had credited these birds with phenomenal speeds, but cars and aeroplanes have made more accurate timing of their flying posTh.e most accurate checks show that ducks and geese do not ordinarily go more than 40 miles an hour; although they are capable of increasing their speed for a long time. The fastest bird timed was a duck hawk in California, which flow at a speed of 105 to 180 miles an hour while chasing its prey. _ Mallards timed in France and Eng land flew 50 to 58 miles an hour, and a flock at top speed in California went only 15 miles an hour. Canada geese timed in Massachusetts flew at 44 miles an hour. aM a brant, in Scotland flew 45 mil** s-n hour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 12
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