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

Most birds can sense shifts in pressure and wind, it allows them to adapt to wind and turbulence. Cars are very fast pockets of wind and pressure disturbance. A healthy fast bird can’t sort of predict where and how your car will move thanks to this and fly around it most times.