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

By my early 20’s i had observed something similar, Birds seem to narrowly avoid being hit by cars. So I didn’t slow down when a bird was in the road… Until I hit one. They don’t *all* get out of the way 😳