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Because to get eletrocuted there has to be a circuit for the electricity to flow through. The bird sitting on one power line is like a dead-end street electrically. With nowhere for the electricity to flow to the bird is safe. Then of course many power lines are insulated, and aren't particulary dangerous in the first place.

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