even if you aren't touching something you have a much larger surface area to
act as a capacitive path to ground for the rf. the small bird being a long
distance from ground and having a smaller area has much smaller capacitive
currents.

"Ed" wrote in message
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If I touch the coil in my tuner while transmitting I get a painful rf
burn. But a bird can perch on my antenna wire while I transmit 100
watts and it stays there seemingly without a care in the world. How
come?


although an over-simplification, the bird is not touching anything
else, (grounded)... but you are.