从这座房子可以俯瞰到特拉华湾壮丽的景致。
鸟群到达特拉华湾时筋疲力竭，每只重量仅有4。5盎司。
The knots arrive in Delaware Bay exhausted and depleted, each weighing about four and a half ounces.
那样算下来，它们可能需要在特拉华湾增加至少百分之五十的体重。
All told, then, they may have to increase their body weight by over 50 percent while in Delaware Bay.
事实证明，问题原来发生在旅途之中：它们中途降落在马里兰州的停留地，特拉华湾。
The problem, it turned out, popped up in the middle of the knots' trip: at a stopover site in Maryland, at Delaware Bay.
不可避免的结论是，渔民们正在逐渐把特拉华湾的马蹄蟹斩尽杀绝，造成可以养活水鸟的蟹卵的减少。
The inescapable conclusion is that fishers were depleting Delaware Bay's horseshoe crab population, causing a reduction in the number of horseshoe crab eggs upon which the shorebirds feed.
让它们能不停地在特拉华湾狂吃的原因，完全是因为老天爷在那里安排了另一种生物：马蹄蟹，地球上最古老的奇怪的动物。
Their ability to go on a sustained eating binge while at the bay is due entirely to another creature: the horseshoe crab. These bizarre animals are among the oldest on Earth.
让它们能不停地在特拉华湾狂吃的原因，完全是因为老天爷在那里安排了另一种生物：马蹄蟹，地球上最古老的奇怪的动物。
Their ability to go on a sustained eating binge while at the bay is due entirely to another creature: the horseshoe crab . These bizarre animals are among the oldest on Earth.
每年快到五月底的时候，实际上全体Calidris canutus rufa鸟(红腹滨鹬的一个亚种)蜂拥而来，到特拉华湾歇脚和吃食。
Every year toward the end of May, virtually the entire population of Calidris canutus rufa [a kind of red knot] funnels into Delaware Bay to rest and eat.
通过对一些红腹滨鹬的捕捉，标记和称重，生物学家已经能够在美国特拉华州湾里，拼凑出一幅令人担忧的趋势图。
By trapping, marking, and weighing the knots, biologists have been able to piece together some alarming trends in Delaware Bay.
通过对一些红腹滨鹬的捕捉，标记和称重，生物学家已经能够在美国特拉华州湾里，拼凑出一幅令人担忧的趋势图。
By trapping, marking, and weighing the knots, biologists have been able to piece together some alarming trends in Delaware Bay.
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