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Why dont birds bump into one another when theyre flying2007-11-24 17:27:06Answers:

This is all to do with reaction times.

What happens when you鈥檙e running around with your friends - perhaps playing netball? You鈥檙e supposed to mark someone so that they don鈥檛 catch the ball. You do that by keeping your eye on them and reacting when they change direction or speed. We鈥檙e not very good at it compared to other animals - we鈥檙e 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鈥檙e 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鈥檇 see they it wasn鈥檛 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.

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

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

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Bird traffic control

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

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john have you not heard of sat nav.

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

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Because they have eyes lol

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

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They know were they are going and they are exellent flyers