Why do birds not get shocked while they sit on high voltage transmission lines but people get shocked the moment they touch those lines?

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Why do birds not get shocked while they sit on high voltage transmission lines but people get shocked the moment they touch those lines?

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The birds on the line are not making a circuit to Earth so the current does not flow through them so they don’t get shocked.

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