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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When I was a kid, I was with my dad who was driving a van. We hit the largest raven or something similiar. It surprised us, but my dad especially, because he hadn’t expected it to swoop in front of us. He stopped to pull it out of the grill but it wasn’t there. Wasn’t on the road, on top of the van, or inside the engine compartment either. He had no idea where it went. We definitely hit it, and the only thing we can think of was that it didn’t die, and was still somehow able to fly after falling to the ground. Sturdy birdy.

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