I was an intern at the songbird summer playhouse.

我可是在歌鸟夏季剧院实习过的。

You may have seen these songbirds in your yard in the morning, pulling up worms.

你或许在清晨自己的院子里看见这鸣禽在揪蠕虫。

Pinnipeds-walruses, seals and sea lions. And parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds. That's it.

再加上海象、海豹和海狮等鳍足亚目动物，以及鹦鹉、蜂鸟和鸣禽。全部就是这。

And, it turns out, same goes for songbirds in learning their duets.

且事实也表，鸣鸟也是在雏鸟时期学习的“二重唱”。

At the beginning of century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

本世纪初，人们普遍认为百灵鸟正在逐渐消失。

Like humans songbirds learn to vocalize by imitation.

跟人类一样，鸣禽也是过模仿来说话的。

" Do wild songbirds lay empty eggs? "

野生的鸟会下空蛋吗？

Over 90 percent of songbirds actually need insects at some point in their life.

实际上有超过百分之九十的鸣禽，在其生命中的有时候会需要昆虫。

The pointy-headed songbirds are talented mimics, often copying the vocalizations of other bird species.

这的鸣鸟是天才模仿者，它们经常模仿其它鸟类的叫声。

Suggesting that the quality of a songbird's genes may be revealed in its tunes.

这表鸣禽的基因质量可能会显示在它们的歌声中。

In Gaza, they are popular as caged songbirds.

在加沙，作为被关在笼子里的鸣鸟，它们很受欢迎。

Now a study shows that some songbirds are in fact show-offs in sight and sound.

现在的一项研究表，一黄莺在视觉及声觉方面都较出色。

But it's especially well-documented in North American songbirds.

但对于北美知更鸟，这类记录尤为详尽。

Ninety-seven percent of all birds killed are songbirds, especially warblers.

百分之九十七的遇害鸟类属于鸣禽，其中莺科鸟数量尤其多。

Regular radar can't tell a flock of songbirds from a swarm of bugs, BirdCast helps discern the two by adding data from bird banding records acoustics, bird scan radar, and citizen scientists using a smartphone app.

普雷达无法区分一群鸣禽和一群虫子，BirdCast 过添加鸟类波段记录、声学、鸟类扫描雷达和公民科学家使用智能手机应用程序的数据来区分这两者。

The mutations in the songbird lineage must thus have happened after the Passeri and Tyranni lines diverged, but before the Passeri themselves began proliferating into their current variety.

因此，鸣禽谱系的突变一定发生在雀形目和霸鹟亚目品种的分化之后，又在雀形目本身开始繁殖成目前的品种之前。

But climate change is disrupting these natural rhythms worldwide, from songbird migration across North America to plankton growth cycles in Norway to a hillside of wildflowers in Missouri.

但气候变化正在打乱全世界的这种自然节奏——从北美鸣禽迁徙到挪威浮游生物生长周期，乃至密苏里州山坡上的野花。

Parrots and songbirds also use their mouths and tongues a lot like we do to create vowels and even combine them to make different calls.

鹦鹉和鸣禽也像我们一样使用它们的嘴和舌头来创造元音，甚至把它们结起来发出不同的叫声。

God could or should save the King, and the nobility were dithering about, eating foie gras and songbirds, failing to make meaningful financial reform.

知识分子们正在思考君权是否真是神授， 贵族则在犹豫是吃鹅肝还是吃蒿雀 对经济重建毫无建树。

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird.

为了查这种特殊的能力是否在鸟类中很普遍，研究人员寻找了另一种澳大利亚鸣鸟——红背细尾鹪鹩。