How do birds accurately predict the path of vehicles?

Question

I see crows and magpies on the road all the time. Vehicles coming at them at 60km/h in a curve. The bird can skip 10cm in one direction to avoid the trajectory of the vehicle. How do they manage that? You rarely see avian roadkill.

In: Biology

Answer 1

They don’t. Birds are roadkill very often.

>The estimated number of birds killed on the roads in different European countries ranges from 350,000 to 27 million

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill)