starlings

"How starlings achieve such a strong correlation remains a mystery to us, " they wrote.

他们写道：“燕八哥怎样会实现它们之间如此牢固的相互联系，对我们来说仍然是一个未解之谜。”

In winter thousands of starlings perform their murmurations round it, banking swiftly and silently in vast helices across the sky.

冬天，成千上万的八哥在码头旁边盘旋，喃喃嘀咕，排成一排成巨大螺旋形快速而安静地在天空中飞翔。

Master said: "The starlings do not shit the bed. "

主人说：“八哥别在床上拉屎。”

Several hundred dead red-winged black birds, starlings, sparrows, and grackles have now turned up in Louisiana near Baton Rouge.

路易斯安那巴吞鲁日附近出现数百只死亡的红翅黑鸟、椋鸟、麻雀和白头翁。

Collisions with power lines seem to have killed roughly 500 blackbirds and starlings in Louisiana on Tuesday.

据瑞典国家兽医学院称，周二在路易斯安那州约有5百只黑鹂和欧洲椋鸟死于与电力线路发生碰撞。

It seemed as if the starlings had been hypnotised because they acted as if they were not being chased.

椋鸟看似精神恍惚，因此它们的举动像没人追赶一样。

Thousands of the starlings earlier this month forced a Ryanair passenger jet to make an emergency landing at the city's Ciampino airport.

这个月初，成千上万的欧掠鸟曾害一架爱尔兰瑞恩航空的客机紧急迫降在罗马的项比诺机场。

When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.

对于和这些椋鸟或者鱼一样，弱小而易受伤害的生物，群居或者去迷惑捕食者确实是一种有用的策略。

And starlings actually appear to be innocent in the case of the missing bluebirds.

实际上，蓝知更鸟的数量减少和椋鸟并没有关系。

At sunset, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus are often filled with the noise of thousands of starlings .

黄昏时分，特拉法尔加广场和皮卡迪利广场回荡着数千只鸟飞翔的噪音。

There was not a sound but the starlings, wheeling and flocking, wheeling and turning over the edge of Afghanistan.

那里一点声音也没有，只有欧掠鸟成群在阿富汗边际来来回回盘旋。

"We may need some of the American starlings to be returned, " Gregory jokes.

“我们可能需要从美国引回一些椋鸟。”格雷戈里打趣说。

To makematters worse, starlings spread diseases that infect both humans andlivestock, costing a further $800 million a year in healthcare.

更严重的是，椋鸟会传播既感染人类又感染家畜的疾病，每年在医疗保健上增加八亿美元的费用。

The starlings would launch out of the yard and into the air as one.

椋鸟会从院子中一起飞向天空。

Granted, I've only mentioned baboons and starlings, but there you've got a mammalian representative and an avian one.

虽然我只是提到了狒狒和八哥，但是它们是哺乳动物和禽类的代表。

A murmuration of starlings -- even the word sounds great.

壮丽的椋鸟群——即使就这么一个字眼听起来也棒极了

He and his colleagues suspect that pesticides and the loss of pastureland have eliminated many insects on which starlings feed.

格雷戈里和他的同事认为是杀虫剂以及牧场的减少使很多椋鸟赖以生存的昆虫绝了迹。

Flocks of, say, starlings or herds of wildebeest do not count as real societies.

成群居住的星椋鸟或者角马不能认为具有真正的社会性。

But perhaps starlings aren't so bad. When the sun hits their feathers just right, they do have a certain iridescent attractiveness.

但或许椋鸟没那麽糟，若阳光以某个角度照射到牠们身上，其实会有虹彩般的光泽。

By the time he attempted this picture, Darren had spent three years photographing starlings.

在尝试拍摄这张照片之前，Darren花了三年时间拍摄欧椋鸟。