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Birds on wires - should 11kV lines be vertically stacked or horizontal?

I saw     this article    where birds on an HV line were causing the interrupters to fire,

And I wondered if, as well as what happens to the cooked birds, if this would be better or worse if the wires were vertically stacked instead of horizontally - round here on some very exposed hillsides with wind problems, the lines are vertically stacked to prevent them swaying into each other. Equally, the problem may be birds by-passing the insulators rather than wire to wire contact.

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  • Whilst on holiday in Sri Lanka our guide pointed out lots of charred fruit bat carcasses on vertically stacked power lines, when they roost upside down they are just long enough to short two lines
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  • Whilst on holiday in Sri Lanka our guide pointed out lots of charred fruit bat carcasses on vertically stacked power lines, when they roost upside down they are just long enough to short two lines
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