Why birds are not electrocuted when they set on eclectric wire?

Question

we often see birds sitting on high power electric wires but not electrocuted ,while other animals are electrocuted when touched with wires.

Answer 1

The birds are not grounded. They are sitting on one live wire without being close to a grounded wire.

Answer 2

The wire is the easiest path for electricity so it does not enter the bird. You could do the same. Now if they touched another wire or something that was grounded they would get the shock. Other animals that get electrocuted are usually on a pole where they come in contact with 2 wires or 1 wire and a ground.

Answer 3

One gets electrocuted only if one is in contact with both live and neutral. Another possibility is that if the subject is grounded, he will experience the bliss of an electric shock. When birds sit on electric wires they do not sit on two wires. If they would have sat that way, you would have anyway not been able to see them for they would been instantaneously charred.
when these animals touch the wires, they are also in contact with the ground; they don't fly do they?! If they are clever enough or rather lucky enough to touch only one and not touch the ground at the same time, then they will be safe. Or else....

Answer 4

Its because the birds are not touching the ground or anything but the wires. The current takes the path of least resistance, and both feet of the bird are touching the same wire with the same amount of voltage running through it. If the bird were to touch one foot on the wire, and another on the ground, OR if the other foot touched another wire with a different amount of voltage running through it, he would be killed since the current would flow from the area of high potential to the area of lower potential (the ground or the wire that has less current going through it), and in the process it would go through the bird, since he is the connecting link.

Answer 5

When a bird sits on on an electric wire, it does not complete a circuit. It has the same potential as the wire. If the same bird sits with one claw on the hot wire and another on the ground (which is not going to happin), the bird would be toast.

Answer 6

They'll only be electrocuted if they touch two wires at once or ground out on something else. They're not completing the cycle.

Answer 7

you have to touch a wire and something else, or 2 wires to get electricuted. if you just touch 1 electrical wire, you will not get electricuted because the electricity will only pass through your body if it has somewhere else to go, and it will not just end up to the same place as where it started

Answer 8

Because they aren't touching anything else and thus not completing the circuit.

Answer 9

The simple answer is that they are not grounded and therfore they are safe