Question

If you touch an electric wire carrying current you get a shock, but if on the same wire the birds sit thye don't get any shock/current. Explain why

Answer 1

because birds are not in touch of any other wire or earth to pass current that's why they don't get shock
and it is also the reason that we r requested to wear sleepers when doing some electrical work to cut the connection of our body with earth

Answer 2

as the wire through which current flows has positively charged and negatively charged electrons...if a human touches it the negatively charged electrons gets attracted and hence they get a shock whereas the birds sit on any one wire due to which it doesn't comes in contact with the electricity that is flowing...