一种鸟

Your neighbor is at the door explaining that he spotted a rare bird in the neighborhood.

你的邻居说他发现一种奇特的鸟，问你是不是同意在你的院子里装鸟巢用来吸引这种鸟。

This year capped a remarkable recovery for the bird, and that is why it is one of our six nominees for Audubon California's Bird of the Year.

今年是这种鸟可喜恢复的一年，而这就是为什么它是我们的加利福尼亚奥杜邦鸟类学会年鸟的六种候选鸟之一。

His favourite was a sequence of cooking a rhea--a short-legged, ostrich-like bird--which he had felled with the classical hunting weapon of Patagonia, the bolas.

他最喜欢烧烤三趾鸵鸟的一套活计。这种鸟腿短，样子像鸵鸟。他用巴塔哥尼亚传统的狩猎武器流星锤击倒猎物。

THE ivory-billed woodpecker is not large, as birds go. It is about the size of a crow, but flashier. Its claim to fame is that, though it had been thought extinct since 1944, a lone kayaker spotted it about two years ago, flying around among the cypress trees in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge.

象牙喙啄木鸟与普通的鸟一样，体形不是很大，跟乌鸦差不多，但羽色较亮。1944年以来人们一直以为它已经灭绝，但大约两年前，一个划着小船的独行客在凯奇河国家野生物保护区的柏树林中发现一只啄木鸟正在四处飞翔，因此，这种鸟就出了名。

The loggerhead shrike, a small grey, black and white bird, has declined by 92% since then.

大头伯劳鸟是一种体型较小，羽毛为灰色、黑色和白色的鸟。这种鸟的数量自那时起已经减少了92%。

Because the last confirmed sighting of an ivory-bill was in Louisiana in 1944, the Arkansas "discovery" was hailed at the time as the ornithological equivalent of finding Elvis alive, and the event catapulted the birds to celebrity status.

因为最后一次被确认的关于象牙喙啄木鸟的发现是在1944年的路易斯安娜州。所以阿肯色州的"发现"不啻于发现"猫王"复活。那次事件让这种鸟名声大噪。

I don't think either photo is of a Dark-throated Thrush, but are they both the same bird?

我不认为任何一张照片是赤颈鸫，但这二张是同一种鸟吗？

Throughout countless nights and days, only once will its body brush the dust of the ground and that's the very time when it bids farewell to the world.

飞累了就在风里面睡觉，这种鸟一辈子只能下地一次，那一次就是它死亡的时候。

I was driven out of bed every morning by a raucous dawn chorus. The violet whistling thrush was among the first to start up, and the hwamei ("beautiful eyebrow"), with white eyestripe and rich territorial song.

每天清晨，我在沙哑的鸟叫声中起床：紫啸鸫是最早起的一种鸟，有着白色的眉框画眉，唱着各种赞颂的歌。

Starlings, as befits one of the most successful birds on Earth, are not averse to exploiting a berry crop - particularly elderberries in late summer and autumn.

欧掠鸟，地球上生存适应最为成功的一种鸟，很乐意开采果实，特别是夏末和秋末的接骨木果实。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。