I've had two bird strikes on my motorcycle. Both the same scanario: he's perched on the right side of the road facing left across the road, it's raining, he hears me coming ~45mph, startles and takes off, BLAMMO. One sparrow to the chest, one crow to the headlight. I was glad the crow was not to the chest.

Haven't had any bird strikes on bike but I almost ran down a goose once. Silly thing took off running directly away from me, Looney Tunes style, instead of going left or right like normal. Come to think of it it was also raining then. I think rain makes them slow, or worse at flying or something?