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

As an example a flock of cockatoos that are in the city will have grown up around cars and actively avoid them, mostly by flying a hit higher, you will still hit the occasional juvenile or one engaged in a fight. Country cockatoos rarely come across cars and when they do you’re usually going 100kph or more, they will make no attempt to avoid and end up on the windscreen with a puff off white dust.