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Birds do not touch the ground or any other object while on the wire, so there is no path for electricity to flow through them to the earth.

Hundreds of tangled electricity cables hang over the sprawling metropolis of Old Delhi. The webs of wire spaghetti help to power the Indian capital - but serve up a nightmare for electricians.