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

When cars move, they move the air it runs into. That creates a wave of air, kinda like a boat creates a wave when it moves through the water. That wave makes a force field of sorts that gives the bird a push when they’re in flight, making it tougher to actually get hit.