Why are birds so good at avoiding getting hit by cars?

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There will be times I’m on normal roads or even driving fast on a highway and have had very close encounters with birds flying aross the front of my car.

I never see dead birds on the road so I just assume they have some kind of special airflow mechanism that allowed them to avoid accidents.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

A lot of the time they’ll ping off the windscreen and onto the bank of the road/someone’s yard/down into a ditch.

Sometimes, bigger roadkill will be scootched onto the shoulder or embankment because of the way they’re hit. Birds are usually flying across roads, so their momentum will bounce them further to the side and away from the asphalt.

Anonymous 0 Comments

A lot of the time they’ll ping off the windscreen and onto the bank of the road/someone’s yard/down into a ditch.

Sometimes, bigger roadkill will be scootched onto the shoulder or embankment because of the way they’re hit. Birds are usually flying across roads, so their momentum will bounce them further to the side and away from the asphalt.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I hit one once. It hit my windshield right in front of my face. Then moved across to my left and was about to roll into my open driver side window. I backhanded slapped it to keep it from coming in the car. All happened within 2 seconds it was wild.

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I hit one once. It hit my windshield right in front of my face. Then moved across to my left and was about to roll into my open driver side window. I backhanded slapped it to keep it from coming in the car. All happened within 2 seconds it was wild.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Lol I was just thinking about this yesterday, how they always dodge and if they did not, there would be dead birds EVERYWHERE

Anonymous 0 Comments

Lol I was just thinking about this yesterday, how they always dodge and if they did not, there would be dead birds EVERYWHERE

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve hit a couple, and I saw someone hit a hawk one time. Thing just spiraled off the edge off the cliff.

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I’ve hit a couple, and I saw someone hit a hawk one time. Thing just spiraled off the edge off the cliff.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Some species of swallow that made their nests near freeway bridges rapidly evolved to having shorter wings due to their need for manueveeability.

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Some species of swallow that made their nests near freeway bridges rapidly evolved to having shorter wings due to their need for manueveeability.

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