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

The ones you meet are the ones that have gotten really good at not getting hit. The others are dead. There are plenty of birds that don’t quite make it. Our experience gets kinda skewed since the ones that learn to not get hit while flying by cars can usually keep doing it and getting better while the dead ones don’t.