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Why don birds get electrocuted on power lines?

April 26, 2017Birds electrocuted Pets power

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Why don birds get electrocuted on power lines?

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Contact must be made between a power line and something that is connected to the earth.Then the electric current passes through the bird. In instances involving those big lines high above on steel towers that carries such Strong current that something several feet from both the line and the metal can receive enough electricity to kill.

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It’s because the power doesn’t isn’t earthed. You could do exactly the same if you could grab hold of the power line without touching anything else.

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well I am not sure they don’t as I remember on day I was at my daughters sports day some 16 years ago and by the school there are pyelons and overhead lines we were watching the kids and all of a sudden there was a bang and seven pidgeons hit the ground, myself and the teachers were shocked as like others here could not understand how it happened as no one saw anything

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so why do monkey’s in india get electrocuted but them and not birds i saw it on tv once a monkey was on the power line monkeying around and it got shocked what makes birds so special maybe they do have a mystical power!!!