如今，鸟类研究暗示着这种常理也许是错的。
Research carried out on birds now suggests that the accepted wisdom could be wrong.
这支民间科学家队伍对鸟类研究者贡献了极为珍贵的数据资料。
This band of citizen scientists has contributed invaluable data to researchers.
每隔20年，英国鸟类研究信托公司都会公布一组有关英国和爱尔兰的鸟类生活详细地图分布册。
Every 20 years the BTO produces a superbly detailed atlas of bird life in Britain and Ireland.
锡默斯，系马克斯·普朗克鸟类研究所感官生态学研究小组负责人，说蝙蝠达能到8个八度比最好的人类女高音能发出的音调更高。
Siemers, research leader of the Sensory Ecology Group at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said the bats reach notes that are 8 octaves higher than what the best human sopranos can produce.
对鸟类的研究可能会对睡眠提供独特的见解。
我今天要讲的是对一种特殊鸟类的研究——新喀里多尼亚乌鸦，它的自然栖息地是太平洋上的小岛。
I'm going to talk today about research into a particular species of bird—the New Caledonian crow, whose natural habitat is small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
伊比利亚半岛上的垃圾填埋场长期以来一直吸引着当地的白鹳，但研究中标记的所有西班牙鸟类都飞越了撒哈拉沙漠，来到了萨赫勒的西部地区。
Landfill sites on the Iberian peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara desert to the western Sahel.
他们正在研究鸟类寻找食物的方式是否会给它们带来任何可能的进化优势。
They're looking into whether the birds' way of searching for food gives them any possible evolutionary advantage.
由于这项研究，研究人员现在坚信，这些鸟类的雄性养育行为可能起源于恐龙的行为。
Researchers now believe, because of this study, that the male parenting behavior of these birds might have its origins in the behavior of dinosaurs.
对非外来物种的研究没有得到类似的结果，这使得研究人员推测鸟类的社会学习能力可能与哺乳动物的社会学习能力有根本性的区别。
Studies on nonalien species have not produced similar results, leading researchers to speculate that avian social learning may be fundamentally different from that of mammals.
研究鸟类对保护鸟类很重要。
他进行关于鸟类的研究，经营网站来教人们鸟类相关的知识以及帮助它们的方法，并为鸟儿制作箱子。
He does research about birds, runs a website to teach people about birds and how to help them, and builds boxes for birds.
鸟类也被广泛应用于生态位假说和乔治高斯竞争排斥原理的研究中。
Birds were also widely used in studies of the niche hypothesis and Georgii Gause's competitive exclusion principle.
现在，一份对鸡胚胎的研究，鸟类的翅膀的趾中确实有类似于人类拇指、食指和中指的趾的分化。
Now, a study of chick embryos shows that birds do indeed have thumb, index, and middle "fingers" in their wings.
为了找出这种表面上的差异，麻省阿默斯特大学的伊丽莎白·杜蒙特研究了鸟类，啮齿动物和蝙蝠的头骨与肢骨。
To sort out this seeming discrepancy, Elizabeth Dumont of the University of Massachusetts Amherst studied the skulls and limb bones of song birds, rodents and bats.
根据最新研究，鸟类的翅膀是从它们祖先的前臂进化而来。一直以来，它们的身体造型由覆盖的羽毛决定。
According to the latest study, birds' wings evolved from the forearms of their ancestors and over time their whole body shape was determined by the covering of feathers.
她的小组研究表明鸟类可能经进化产生较高水平的黑色素，以保护其免疫系统。
Her team's research suggests that the birds may have evolved to produce higher levels of melanin in order to protect their immune systems.
自达芬奇及莱特兄弟，到当下的飞机设计师，都着迷于研究鸟类的翅膀，以便更好的理解飞行的奥秘。
FROM Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright brothers and among today's aircraft designers, there is a fascination in studying the wings of birds, better to understand the mysteries of flight.
以前有研究指出在鸟类及哺乳动物中大脑袋与行为创新性之间存在联系。
Previous studies have highlighted the link between larger brains and behavioural innovation in birds and mammals.
基于11个散落的森林残余地，一个长达25年的研究表明鸟类可能会再次回来——如果散落的森林可以重新融合。
A 25-year study of 11 of the fragments now finds that the birds can come back-if the pieces are reconnected.
一项新的研究发现鸟类的筑巢本领是后天学来的，不是先天本能。
A new study has found birds learn the art of nest-building, rather than it being just an instinctive skill.
始祖鸟曾经被广泛认为是最早的鸟类，最新的研究发现它其实是一种恐龙。这将给古生物学带来哪些改变？
Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur.
研究称，少数鸟类如黑顶莺等已经开始适应在英国过冬，但这种情况还只是少数。
A few — such as the Blackcap — have started to adapt by spending winters in Britain, but such behaviour remains exceptional, the study said.
这些化石还将有助于科学家研究早期鸟类的飞行机制。
The fossils will also help scientists work out the mechanics of how early birds flew.
而现在他们认为已经找到了一些线索，这主要归功于一项对蝙蝠和鸟类的最新研究。
Now they say they're finding clues, thanks to new research on birds and bats.
这里有几个想法：通过国际鸟类营救研究中心收养一只棕色的鹈鹕，这只鸟能从海水中拣起被油浸透的鸟，并为它们清洗和重新为它们找到栖息地。
Here are a few ideas: Adopt a Brown Pelican through the International bird Rescue Research Center, which picks up oiled birds, cleans and rehabilitates them.
所以，研究鸟类大脑有助于解释人类大脑中的类似状况，怀尔敏大学JonPrather这样说道。
So research on bird brains could help explain what's going on in the human brain, says Jon Prather from the University of Wyoming.
最新研究表明，鸟类的翅膀是由其祖先的前臂进化而来的，随着时间的推移，覆盖全身的羽毛决定了它们的整个体型。
According to the latest study, birds' wings evolved from the forearms of their ancestors and over time their whole body shape was determined by the covering of feathers.
最新研究表明，鸟类的翅膀是由其祖先的前臂进化而来的，随着时间的推移，覆盖全身的羽毛决定了它们的整个体型。
According to the latest study, birds' wings evolved from the forearms of their ancestors and over time their whole body shape was determined by the covering of feathers.
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