1·This feather was picked up from the heath, the bird was not shot: we saw its nest in the winter, full of little skeletons.
这根毛是从石南丛生的荒地里拾的，这只鸟儿没打中：我们在冬天看见过它的窝的，满是小骨头。
2·Winter came and was very cold, the Nonconformist bird had never felt such cold weather and was afraid that he might freeze to death.
冬天来了，非常冷，这只不墨守常规的鸟从未经历过这么冷的天气，他怕他会冻死。
3·One autumn day there fluttered on to the Cathedral roof a slender, sweet-voiced bird that had wandered away from the bare fields and thinning hedgerows in search of a winter roosting-place.
秋日的一天，大教堂屋顶上飞来一只体态轻盈、叫声甜美的小鸟。 它离开荒芜的原野和日渐稀疏的矮树篱只为寻一处冬季的栖息地。
4·Then during the late fall and winter as the clock "ticks", certain physiological changes occur in the bird.
在之后的深秋和冬天，如同钟的转动一样，特定的生理变化在鸟类的身体上表现出来。
5·Despite the onset of the New Zealand winter, the bird was probably hot and thirsty, he said, and it had been eating wet sand.
虽然新西兰的冬天也要来临了，但是它在这儿可能会觉得太热而且太渴。在这里，他一直靠吃湿沙子补充水分。
6·Almost half of the bird species that breed in Britain leave for the winter, sometimes travelling prodigious distances.
几乎有一半在英国繁殖的鸟类要冬徙，有时飞越的距离相当惊人。
7·There once was a nonconformist bird that decided not to fly south for the winter.
曾经有一只不墨守常规的鸟，他决定不飞往南方过冬。
8·Many of the bird species that breed in the temperate forests, marshes and backyards of North America spend the winter months in the tropics of the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
许多在北美温带的森林、沼泽、草地等地区繁殖的鸟类，在冬季会飞去热带的加勒比海地区或者美国的中部、南部过冬。
9·Researchers found that more than 50% of the 300 or so bird species in the U.S. spend more time north in the winter.
研究者发现，在冬天美国大约300种鸟类中有超过50%在北方度过更多时间。
10·I am a sheeter pakhi – a bird who has flown east for the winter. Every year I travel home to visit my family and reconnect with Bangladesh.
象一只南飞避寒的候鸟，每年我都要回家省亲，重拾与孟加拉的联系。