if birds exploded on impact, birdwatching would be a lot more popular
Yesterday I watched a tufted titmouse fly down out of a crabapple tree (dive-flap flap flap-dive-flap flap flap) towards my birdfeeder, sideswipe a pillar at full speed, recover and curve back around and finally land on the feeder... all to get a single safflower seed and fly off with it.