page_title: Roadkill
section_title: Distribution and abundance
hierarchical_section_title: Roadkill / Distribution and abundance
caption_attribution_description: English: Wombat - road-kill, Nerriga, New South Walkes, Australia
context_page_description: Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways. Wildlife-vehicle collisions have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how it can be mitigated. Some roadkill can also be eaten.
context_section_description: Very large numbers of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates are killed on the world's roads every day. The number of animals killed in the United States has been estimated at a million per day.
  The estimated number of birds killed on the roads in different European countries ranges from 350,000 to 27 million, depending on the factors such as the geography of the country and bird migration paths.
caption: Wombat roadkill, Nerriga, New South Wales, Australia
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