You may have seen these songbirds in your yard in the morning, pulling up worms.

你或许在清晨自己院子里看见这些鸣禽在揪蠕虫。

" Do wild songbirds lay empty eggs? "

野生鸟会下空蛋吗？

He says the flycatchers face fearsome foes, in the form of bigger resident songbirds, called great tits.

他说，斑姬鹟面临着可怕天敌——被称为“大山雀”体型更大本地鸣鸟。

Do wild birds, wild songbirds lay empty eggs?

野鸟，野鸣禽是否会下空蛋？

I was an intern at the songbird summer playhouse.

我可是在歌鸟夏季剧院实习过。

Ninety-seven percent of all birds killed are songbirds, especially warblers.

百分之九十七鸟类属鸣禽，其鸟数量尤其多。

At the beginning of century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

本世纪初，人们普遍认为百灵鸟正在逐渐消失。

Pinnipeds-walruses, seals and sea lions. And parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds. That's it.

再加上海象、海豹和海狮等鳍足亚目动物，以及鹦鹉、蜂鸟和鸣禽。全部就是这些。

And, it turns out, same goes for songbirds in learning their duets.

而且事实也表明，鸣鸟也是在雏鸟时期学习“二重唱”。

Like humans songbirds learn to vocalize by imitation.

跟人类一样，鸣禽也是通过模仿来说话。

Over 90 percent of songbirds actually need insects at some point in their life.

实际上有超过百分之九十鸣禽，在其生命有些时候会需要昆虫。

The pointy-headed songbirds are talented mimics, often copying the vocalizations of other bird species.

这些聪明鸣鸟是天才模仿者，它们经常模仿其它鸟类叫声。

Suggesting that the quality of a songbird's genes may be revealed in its tunes.

这表明鸣禽基因质量可能会显示在它们歌声。

Now a study shows that some songbirds are in fact show-offs in sight and sound.

而现在一项研究表明，一些黄在视觉及声觉方面都较出色。

But more than 660 species of songbirds are known in which the females sing as well.

但是目前已知有超过660种雌性也会鸣叫鸣禽。

And there are still 3,500 species of songbird in which the female singing status is unknown.

而仍然有3500种鸣禽，其雌性鸣叫状态仍未知。

It was part of a project to control mosquitoes. Many songbirds and harmless insects were killed by the DDT.

DDT是为了控制蚊子，很多黄和无昆虫都被DDT杀死。

Songbirds could provide a window to the origins of speech disorders caused by autism strokes and Parkinson's disease.

鸣禽可以作为借鉴，让我们弄清楚语言障碍原因，风和帕金森症都可以引发语言障碍。

We find stuttering in songbirds, we can induce a Parkinson like conditioning then that causes stuttering.

我们发现鸣禽有结巴现象后，就可以总结出一种类似帕金森情况，正是这种情况引发了口吃。

Researchers from Japan and Germany slow down footages of the blue capped cordon-bleu songbirds during courtship. Here's our science reporter Jonathan Web.

来自日本和德国研究人员通过摄像头慢动作捕捉到了“蓝顶蓝饰雀”在配偶时舞姿。请听本台学记者乔纳森·韦伯报道。