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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They’re not good at avoiding being hit. It’s especially a huge problem for owls. They fly low (looking for mice) over fields that are intersected by roads, especially when they are young and looking for their own territory. The [UK Barn Owl Trust](https://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/hazards-solutions/barn-owls-major-roads/) says it is estimated that out of about 12,000 baby barn owls born each year, 3,000-5,000 of them are killed on roads!!!
There are easy ways to reduce the dangers for birds (tallied about in the link above), we just need these things to become standard practice in building roads.
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