Pinkman, your post on the small chance of hitting two birds is based on the assumption of a head-on (or tail-on) impact with the flock. Hit the V at an angle from the side and it is easy to postulate a very high number of birds within the engine-span of the aircraft.
In fact you could be unlucky enough fly up one leg of the V and take say 10 birds in one engine and one bird from the other leg in the other!