Their heads have fetching crests, and their necks are a beautiful, iridescent blue.

它们头上有迷人的羽冠，以及光泽艳丽的蓝色脖子。

The crest feathers that actually give the peacocks' their Latin name, they're called Pavo cristatus, the crested pheasant.

“孔雀的语名字Pavo cristatus就因其羽冠而得名，意为有羽冠的野鸡。

The Hooded Crows are hungry too. But they'll have to wait their turn.

羽冠乌鸦同样饥肠辘辘。不过它们得等，还没轮到它们。

The crests thus act like a sort of special antenna meant to pick up a single kind of sound.

样一来，羽冠就像是接单一声音的特殊天线。

Both male and female peafowl sport crests on their heads, small feathers that stick straight up, like a Mohawk.

雄孔雀和雌孔雀都会炫耀头上的羽冠，即直立的小羽毛，就像莫霍克发型一样。

And so I was intrigued by the fact that people didn't really know what the function of these crests were.

人们并不些羽冠的功能，一点引起了我的兴趣。”

The kingfisher will raise its crest,   maybe that's to make itself look bigger .

翠鸟会竖起它的羽冠，也许那是为了让自己看起来更大。

His rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red.

他皱巴巴的灰发高高耸立在前额之上， 就像一只愤怒的小鸟的羽冠，他布满青筋的脸颊呈皮革般的棕色， 上面布满了红色斑点。

True in people and also true in birds where you see feathers in a crest that is visible from a long way off, telling one bird what species of bird it's looking at.

在人类和鸟类中都是如此，你可以在很远的地方看到羽冠上的羽毛，告诉一只鸟它在看什么。

But to call it a bird was out of the question, because it had no feathers whatever except a crest of wavy plumes of a scarlet color on the very top of its head.

但称它为鸟是不可能的，因为它除了头顶上的猩红色波浪状羽冠外，没有任何羽毛。

Dorian heaved a sigh, and Lord Henry strolled across the room and began to stroke the head of a curious Java parrot, a large, grey-plumaged bird with pink crest and tail, that was balancing itself upon a bamboo perch.

多里安叹了口气，亨利勋爵漫步穿过房间，开始抚摸一只好奇的爪哇鹦鹉的头，是一种体型巨大、灰色羽毛、粉红色羽冠和尾巴的鸟，它正在竹竿上保持平衡。