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

they absolutely do get ran over.

my sister even saw a pidgeon get run over by a tram (tho i guess that one was exceptionally stupid)

tho they avoid cars just like they would avoid an animal.

and after decades of cars, they trough natural selection adapted to living with cars. birds that got hit and died didnt reproduce, so the birds that learnt to avoid cars survived.