Question: Why don't birds get electrocuted when they land on an electric wire?

William Glass answered on 9 Nov 2018:

Now that’s a fun question! So basically electricity will flow through the path of least resistance (think of it as being lazy and only wanting to go the “easiest” way). In the case of a bird sat on a wire this is via the Copper wire it’s currently flowing though (Copper is an excellent conductor!) and so the electrons just go past the bird and continue down the wire. This is also to do with potential differences, the bird isn’t in contact with a) the ground or b) something else that would cause it to have a potential difference. If it were then it would certainly get electrocuted!