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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I will always remember riding in my dad’s fire engine red 1988 Dodge Ram down a country road toward my grandmother’s house. This was a narrow track surrounded on both sides by tall, ready-to-harvest corn. All of a sudden, a red streak out of the fields turned into a red explosion complete with a burst of red feathers and dripping red blood on the windshield. Turns out the ram hood ornament had struck a cardinal mid-flight. It was spectacular.

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