He was a warbler and flying very low over the water.

那是只鸣禽，在水面上飞得很低。

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

你或许在清晨自己院子里看见些鸣禽在揪蠕虫。

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。全部就是些。

That are specialized in them that you don't find in things like chicken.

是鸣禽类有，鸡类就没有点。

Do wild birds, wild songbirds lay empty eggs?

野鸟，野鸣禽是否会下空蛋？

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鸣禽，在其生命中有些时候会需要昆虫。

But for many migrants-like smaller songbirds-nighttime is the right time, when it comes to migration.

但是，对于小型鸣禽等众多迁徙动物而言，夜晚才是适合迁徙时间。

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

表明鸣禽基因质量可能会显示在歌声中。

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

百分之九十七遇害鸟类属于鸣禽，其中莺科鸟数量尤其多。

Wait. You're saying our uncle is still alive?

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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.

普通雷达无法区分一群鸣禽和一群虫子，BirdCast 通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数据来区分两者。

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，鸣禽谱系突变一定发生在雀形目和霸鹟亚目品种分化之后，而又在雀形目本身开始繁殖成目前品种之前。

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.

鹦鹉和鸣禽也像我一样使用嘴和舌头来创造元音，甚至把结合起来发出不同叫声。

And the additional layer of mystery is that songbird migration in large part occurs at night, so it's also literally shrouded in darkness.

更神秘是鸣禽迁徙大多在夜间进行，因此也确实是“笼罩在黑暗中”。

Ornithologists say a rare songbird, the Dusky Tetraka, has been sighted in Madagascar for the first time in 24 years.

鸟类学家表示，一种罕见鸣禽，暗色旋木鹎, 24 年来首次在马达加斯加被发现。

It's quite possible. A large repertoire in songbirds has been shown to be advantageous in numerous ways related to reproduction.

很有可能。鸣禽多样曲目已被证明在与繁殖相关许多方面有益。

It's less parsimonious to assume that the ancestors of ostriches, chickens, and songbirds all evolved feathers independently.

不太简约地进行假设话，就是鸵鸟、小鸡和鸣禽祖先都独立进化出羽毛。

Like humans songbirds learn to vocalize by imitation.

跟人类一样，鸣禽也是通过模仿来说话。

But more than 660 species of songbirds are known in which the females sing as well.

但是目前已知有超过660种雌性也会鸣叫鸣禽。