Volume 11, Number 10—October 2005
Research
Mallards and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Ancestral Viruses, Northern Europe
Figure 1
![Main fall migration route of wild waterfowl in northern Europe (31). The sample locations Öland (Sweden) and Lekkerkerk and Krimpen a/d Lek (the Netherlands) are marked with asterisks.](/eid/images/05-0546-F1.gif)
Figure 1. Main fall migration route of wild waterfowl in northern Europe (31). The sample locations Öland (Sweden) and Lekkerkerk and Krimpen a/d Lek (the Netherlands) are marked with asterisks.
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