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.
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With most cars, the aerodynamics will cause the bird to miss the car even if the bird does a poor job of getting out of the way. The bird is riding air currents and those are going over or around the car.
If you ever own a car with a vertical windshield and poor aerodynamics, you will quickly realize birds are not as good as avoiding cars as it seems. A mini van I owned ages ago was like that and over the years I had several birds slam into the windshield.
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