Best road sense?

[FUDGEY]

A bit of a silly one this, but what bird do you think has the best road sense. Take account how often the bird you choose is seen by roads. I think it has to be the Pied Wagtail. I see them on roads all the time & I have never seen a dead one. Just a bit of fun this one :-)

[Dogghound]

Wood Pigeon

[FUDGEY]

Yes, good one, one of the fastest birds from a standing start. I've seen two dead ones though :-)

[big bill]

The Crow family always on the road never seem to get hit at least not up here

[aeshna5]

Agree, the corvids generally have good road skills, but they are amongst the most intelligent of birds.

Pheasants must be amongst the most dunce like!

[Jason Green]

I say corvids too.

[JeffH]

Yes, got to be the Rooks and Crows - nature's road cleaners.

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Avocets, Kingfishers and Barn Owls)

[Jonners]

Crows and rooks seem to be able to live life just next to the fast lane, often literally. The trouble with pheasants is that you never know, even though they are safely on the other side of your quite country road, whether they are about to make a last-minute dash for your side. Pigeons have a remarkable knack of suddenly appearing at windscreen height on a trajectory that bisects that of your own particular means of transport, but they do seem to enjoy it. Pheasants always look like the're panicking. Crows just act nonchelant. And anyone who lives anywhere near ducks knows that they are a law unto themselves.
I did once come over a rise in the road and pass straight over a tawny owl, which I think must have been hit or clipped previously. I managed to pick up said owl and put him/her in my car to take to my brother-in-law vet a mile away. By the time I had got there, the owl had come round, and as I opened the door, the owl flew out and away

[captaincarot]

fudgey has a point, not once did i have o actively avoid a pied wagtail on sunday, pigeons just sat there in the road apparently oblivious to me heading towards them in my car,

goldfinches and lots of other small brownish birds exploding out of hedgerows in a desperate attempt to get me to hit them.

but the peid wagtails were out the way every time bright and early.

ducks with young know you will stop to let them cross so they take advantage of it. particularly the ones that live in the duckpond in wantage.

[Jim Ford]

Blackbirds will often fly out of a tree or bush, starting above car height but dipping down to car height in the road, before rising to above car height for a tree the other side of the road. A few will fly straight without dipping. I wonder if the genetically disposed 'dippers' will gradually get weeded out by car windscreens and the straight flyers then predominate!

Jim