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Why dont birds get hurt when they sit on electric wires2007-11-24 17:27:07Answers:

Because they aren't "grounded". They would have to be touching both the ground and the wire at the same time in order to be electrocuted.

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The same reason you don't get electrocuted by licking an electrical wire.

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to get electricuted you have to be earthed,

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in order to get electrocuted by a electrical wires, one limb must be touching the wire, and another the ground.

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the birds dont get hurt because they dont contact the ground. The electricity goes straight though them and back into the wire. If the bird was in contact with something from the ground, the electricity would make a short cirquit and fry the bird.

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I guess you've never seen a one legged bird. It happens a lot more than most people think. Their little foot gets blown off by the force of the electrical current.

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In order to get a shock the bird, or anything else, needs to have a completion of the circuit. On rare occasion, with extremely high voltages, the bird could be injured by electrical corona created when the bird makes a point, like a lightning rod, and an arc into space is created.

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Birds don't get hurt because their feet are covered by scales which protect them by providing a form of insulation i.e do not allow electricity to flow into their body.

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because u need to touch two wires - the live and the neutral to get electricity! if u noticed there r 3 lines two gives u 11o volts and three gives u 240 volts

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They don't get electrocuted because they had both feet on one wire only. They have to touch two wires for current to flow from one wire to the other.

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because they wear protective gear.

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because they sit on the webbed bit of there foot!!.