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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Birds see “faster” than humans do. A typical movie takes 24 images per second for a human to think it is moving. For a bird it takes around 120. Birds therefore see movement in much more detail, and can time their movement much better.

Granted, they’re still dumb af and will get hit by a truck if they’re not paying attention to it.

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