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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fugl" data-source="post: 1359294" data-attributes="member: 816">Yes, evidently it does, according to BNA-online (<a href="http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/658/articles/behavior):" target="_blank">http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/658/articles/behavior):</a>"Females can become exhausted and unable to escape, and wounded on crown, neck, or back by males pecking or scratching during mounting attempts. Female mortalities during multi-male FEPC attempts occur annually in crowded urban populations, but also recorded in wild (Amat 1983)". Maybe so, but  my guess is that there's little or no definite information on the subject one way or the other.  But one thing's certain, these assaults are much more likely to be noticed by humans at urban duck ponds than they are in the wild.</blockquote>