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Why don't birds get electrocuted on power lines?

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Birds have no problem sitting, unruffled, on the high-voltage power lines you often see lining the road. ... “They move through the power lines, through your TV, and eventually they make their way back into the ground from where they came.” read more

Birds will never get electrocuted until current passes through their body. And for current to flow from any body there has to be a potential difference b/w two points (b/w two body part). The bird can never get electrocuted if it just sits on the wire having constant (same) potential. read more

The reason that birds don’t get electrocuted whilst they sit on power cables is that both the birds feet are at the same potential, so the electricity doesn’t flow through them. Secondly, the bird offers greater resistance to the electricity passing through it than the power cable, so the electricity will travel through the power cable. read more

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