But there's one type of situation that does seem to frighten the urban blackbirds, and that's anything new -- anything they haven't experienced before.

但是也有一能够吓到城市的黑鹂，那就是全新的--这它们从来没有遇到过。

And as always: blackbirds, pine trees, cicadas.

还有永远不变的乌鸫、松树、蝉。

Red-winged blackbirds, which sometimes nest near warblers, do not produce referential alarm calls.

红翅黑鹂有时在黄莺附近巢，它们没有发出指未警报叫声。

The bluejays, the blackbirds, and the crows were frightened.

冠蓝鸦、黑鹂和乌鸦都害怕它。

Teachers always like to talk about the difference between a blackbird, which is a compound that refers to a specific kind of bird, and a black bird, which is any bird that is black, and is not a compound.

老师们通常喜欢这样区分Blackbird和Black Bird，Blackbird是复合名词，是某具体的鸟（山雀，画眉）；但是Black Bird指的是任一黑色的鸟。

But could the country blackbird and its city cousin now have different personalities?

但是它们会不会性格也有所不同呢？

Many birds, such as thrushes and blackbirds, feed on snails.

很多鸟类都喜欢捕食蜗牛, 比如画眉与黑鸫。

But there's one type of situation that does seem to frighten the urban blackbirds, and that's anything new – anything they haven't experienced before.

但是有一似乎确实吓到了城市黑鸟，那是任新的事——任他们以前没有经历过的事。

I feel like our main goal with the culture of blackbird starts with the staff if you come into a building and you feel positive like happy energy.

我觉得我们的黑鸟文化的主要目标是从员工开始，如果走进一座，会感觉到积极的快乐能量。

While traditional, motionless scarecrows do work against " pest birds" (e. g. crows and blackbirds), the effect is almost always temporary.

尽管传统的一动不动的稻草人对害鸟（比如乌鸦和乌鸫）确实有作用，但是效果基本上都持续不了多久。

Thoughts of small quiet lakes in the woods, where canebrakes grew and blackbirds sang, filled Louis's mind.

路易斯满脑子想着森林中的那些宁静的小湖，那些有藤林生长和乌鸫歌唱的地方。

Then over in Germany at the Max Planck Institute, there's another biologist called Catarina Miranda who's done some experiments with blackbirds living in urban and rural areas.

然后在德国的马克斯--普朗克研究所，有一位名为Catarina Miranda 的生物学家，她做了关于生活在城市和农村地区的黑鹂的实验。

" I saw a muskrat, " said Sam, " and a few Red-winged Blackbirds."

“我看见了一只麝鼠，”萨姆说，“还有几只红翼歌鸫。”

Researchers have shown that urban and rural blackbirds already differ from one another in their songs, the timing of reproduction and their risk of diseases.

研究人员通过研究发现城市黑鹂和农村黑鹂在歌声，繁育时间和得病风险上都不一样了。

And whenever we were doing seet call playbacks to the yellow warblers, the red-winged blackbirds kept showing up.

只要我们给黄莺播放seet叫声，红翅黑鹂就会出现。

So as you might expect, she's found that the urban blackbirds tend to be quite bold- they're prepared to face up to a lot of threats that would frighten away their country counterparts.

可能如所料，她发现城市的黑鹂会更加大胆——它们不惧很多挑战，而这些挑战可能会吓坏它们的乡村同伴。

Red-winged Blackbirds were busy nesting in this part of the pond, and a pair of Mallard Ducks were courting.

红翼歌鸫正在这里忙着巢，一对绿头鸭在相互示爱。

" Here we are, gracefully floating, supremely buoyant, at some distance from the others, in perfect surroundings --a fine morning, with the pond quiet except for the song of the blackbirds, making the air sweet."

“我们来到了这里，优美地浮在水面，感觉极其轻松，和其他人保持着一定的距离，四周的环境完美无暇一个多么美好的早晨，池塘是多么的宁静，四周只有乌鸫那令空气变得甜美的歌声。”

Some experts say that blackbirds may have been trying to escape a predatory bird.

一些专家认为，黑鸟可能正在试图逃离一只捕食性的鸟类。

You start with simple bird species like blackbirds.

从简单的鸟类开始，比如乌鸫。