岛上栖息着各种各样的海鸟和滨鸟,包括濒危的褐鹈鹕、最小燕鸥和笛鸻。
A variety of seabirds and shorebirds inhabit the islands, including the endangered brown pelican, least tern, and piping plover.
旅鼠,驯鹿和红腹滨鹬(一种滨鸟)的种群数量都有所下降。
Populations of lemmings, caribou and red knot (a shorebird) have all decreased.
来自世界各地的滨鸟爱好者正络绎不绝地来到这一内陆天堂。
Shorebird enthusiasts from all over the world are already traveling to this inland paradise.
今天的滨鸟拖着脚走在泥泞的地面上,寻觅着可供食用的无脊椎动物。
Today's shorebirds shuffle along muddy flats pecking and probing for invertebrates to eat.
升降不定的水位常常使草原上最好的滨鸟栖息地被挤到了保护区之外。
Often, fluctuating water levels put the best shorebird habitat on grassland outside the protected areas.
海岸边的滨鸟很少,只有一些孤独的鹬和胆小的水禽,但事实确实是这样。
Along the strand, there are too few shorebirds: some solitary sandpipers, least timid of the waders, but that is it.
滨鸟进化过程的唯一不同是,它们是被时间分隔的;而那些大型的、不会飞行的鸟类是被海洋所分离。
The only difference in the shorebird case is that they were separated by time, whereas the large flightless birds were separated by oceans.
从1亿1千万年前的化石可以看出,很久以前在恐龙身边觅食的滨鸟已经和它们生活在现代的后代具有一样的啄食行为了。
Very early shorebirds that pecked the ground alongside dinosaurs were already behaving exactly like their modern counterparts, according to 110 million-year-old rock fossils.
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.
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.
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