象牙喙啄木鸟不像鸟那样大。它的大小和乌鸦差不多，但更华丽。
The ivory-billed woodpecker is not large, as birds go. It is about the size of a crow, but flashier.
从所有种类平均来看，有16%的喙长差异原因可以用温度来解释。
Averaged across all species, temperature explained 16 per cent of beak size variation.
在一个关于生存的不同寻常的故事中，这只匈牙利鹳装上人工喙后，就重获新生。
In a remarkable story of survival, this Hungarian stork was given a new lease on life after being fitted with an artificial prosthetic beak.
如果托哥巨嘴鸟是在寒冷的爱尔兰进化而来的，它那令人印象深刻的喙部就会比现在小得多了。
If the toco toucan had evolved in chilly Ireland, its impressive bill would have been much more modest.
它有着粗壮的腿、利爪及长有力的长脖子。它的躯干覆盖着毛发状的羽毛，它的喙就像一个长矛。
It had massive legs, taloned claws, and a long, powerful neck. Its body was covered in bristling, hair-like feathers, and its beak resembled a spear.
去年，加拿大安大略布鲁克大学的格伦·塔特索尔发现，托哥巨嘴鸟身体中高达60%的体温都会通过其喙部流失。
Last year Glenn Tattersall of Brock University in Ontario, Canada, found the toco toucan loses up to 60 per cent of its body heat through its beak.
栗嘴巨嘴鸟很大的喙占据了它身体的三分之一长度，但由于其为蜂巢式结构，它并没有看起来那么重。
The giant bill of the chestnut-mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.
鹦鹉们被分派了一项对智力要求很高的任务，它们要协调爪子和喙，将一份拴在绳子上的零食拉到它们的喙上。
The parrots were given the intellectually demanding task of pulling a snack on a string up to their beaks, using a co-ordinated combination of claws and beak.
随后，乌鸦要不就无视了该对象，要不就把工具丢到一边，然后用喙猛啄该对象——这和用工具觅食有很大不同。
Subsequently, the crows either ignored the object or dropped the tool and pecked at the object—which is very different from using the tool to get access to food.
李奇曼：那是它们的“喙”。
鸟用喙整理它的羽毛。
用合成松脂制成的鸟喙也许能让这只鸟重返野外生存。
The beak, which was created from synthetic resin, may allow the bird to return to life in the wild.
羽色、特殊标记以及鸟喙形状等特征在鸟类识别中有很大作用。
Physical characteristics that are important in bird identification include colors, markings, and bill or beak.
德国慕尼黑海拉·布伦动物园。鹈鹕在午餐时间用长长的喙捕鱼。
Pelicans try to catch fish with their beaks during lunch time at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany.
他们有时会用长喙衔些野草或者一块木头，转着圆圈，击打水面。
They also sometimes pick up weeds or a piece of wood with their beaks, twirl in a circle, and smash the object on the water.
它那很长的弯曲的喙就像一个探测器，可以在潜水中寻找到食物。
It uses its long curved bill, equipped with sensitive feelers, to probe for food in shallow waters.
对不同鸟类的观察越仔细，你对多种多样的鸟喙的了解就会更深入。
The more closely you begin to examine different birds, the more familiar you will become with the wide range of bills.
翠鸟流线型的长喙从尖端到头部的直径是逐渐增大的，潜水时会让水流向身后。
Kingfishers wedge themselves into water with a streamlined beak that gradually increases in diameter from tip to head, letting water flow past.
理想的河岸边土壤很松软，这些鸟可以很轻松的用自己喙去凿出适合做窝的地洞。
The ideal riverbank is crumbly enough for the birds to excavate a nesting burrow with their beaks.
某个性状的选择，比如说喙的大小或者其他别的，取决于控制该性状基因的代代传承。
Selection for a trait, be it beak size or something else, depends on passing down the genes for that trait to offspring.
13/13广角镜头拍摄的长喙、矮胖河豚，提示我们它和鲸有亲缘关系。
This wide-angle shot gives an elongated impression of the stocky boto, hinting at its kinship with whales.
一只翁喙朱鹭正在环形码头悉尼旅游休闲区的一个垃圾箱里，翻找着食物残渣。
12a ong-beaked ibis rummages for food scraps in a bin on Sydney's tourist precinct, Circular Quay.
跟它的大型企鹅表亲伊卡企鹅一样，它也长着狭长的尖喙，在远古的赤道地区海洋中用来捕鱼。
Like its giant cousin Icadyptes, it had an hyper-elongated bill which it used to snap up fish in the ancient equatorial sea.
在装上义喙前，“丽人”一直靠饲养员喂食，但有了这副新嘴巴之后，她就又能自己叼着食物了。
Until the prosthetic was attached, Beauty relied on human handlers to feed her, but thanks to the new beak she can again grasp her own food.
部分专家指出：在一些候鸟上喙的细胞之中，存在铁基磁感应受体，可将磁感应信号经神经传导至大脑。
Some researchers had proposed that iron-based receptors in cells found in the upper beaks of some migratory birds sense the magnetic field and send that information along a nerve to the brain.
部分专家指出：在一些候鸟上喙的细胞之中，存在铁基磁感应受体，可将磁感应信号经神经传导至大脑。
Some researchers had proposed that iron-based receptors in cells found in the upper beaks of some migratory birds sense the magnetic field and send that information along a nerve to the brain.
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