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

You won’t find a lot of dead birds on the road because they are lightweight roadkill that will get taken by any carnivore, like a fox or a dog, to be eaten somewhere safer. You’ll probably just see the ones that got stuck in the asphalt by cars and such.

And I had hit a few birds due to speed, including one that got stuck (dead) inside the front of the car until I noticed it was there.