Why don't birds bump into one another when they're flying?

Answer 1

This is all to do with reaction times.

What happens when you’re running around with your friends - perhaps playing netball? You’re supposed to mark someone so that they don’t catch the ball. You do that by keeping your eye on them and reacting when they change direction or speed. We’re not very good at it compared to other animals - we’re quite slow so it can be easy to lose the person marking you. Our reaction times are quite slow.

Birds reaction times, however, are much faster. A bird can react within a split second to the bird next to it changing direction and follow it. If you have a flock of birds all keeping a close eye on the birds next to it, the whole flock can appear to change direction instantaneously because they’re all reacting so quickly.

But if you took a video of a flock of birds flying and slowed it right down (like they slow down films of athletes running) you’d see they it wasn’t instantaneous. There is a delay between one bird moving and the next one copying it.

So birds avoid bumping into each other by having very fast reaction times. Clever stuff.

Answer 2

Bird traffic control

Answer 3

Ive never seen them bumping yet, when the collide they are fighting for food, mate , etc

Answer 4

The same reason people don't bump into each other when they are walking. In-built radar.

Answer 5

because they're not as greedy as humans on the road and there's more space in the air

Answer 6

Because they are NOT rude like people are. They are paying attention to what's around them!

Answer 7

They know were they are going and they are exellent flyers

Answer 8

Because they have high speed, super sonic, ray gun vision

Answer 9

Because they have eyes lol

Answer 10

john have you not heard of sat nav.