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

Question

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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Answer 1

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.