鸟儿，这一类拥有羽毛覆盖几乎全身的卵生脊椎动物，是我们在生活中经常能见到的飞行生物。那么，你知道小鸟在英文中的表达方式吗？下面，让我们一起了解一下关于小鸟的英文知识。

**小鸟的英文释义：**

dickey; dicky; birdie; chick; chicken

**网络用语：**

BIRD; birdie; little bird; fledgling

**小鸟的英文例句：**

- What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be?（这只鲜红羽毛的小鸟是什么鸟呢？）

- Build new houses for the birds in the tree?（孩子们要花多长时间才能为树上的小鸟建好新家？）

- She sings as merrily as a little bird.（她歌唱得像小鸟一样快乐。）

- The birds were trilling in the trees.（小鸟在树间鸣啭。）

**小鸟的英文阅读：**

鸟儿捕食昆虫的技巧

Everyone is familiar with the sight of robins hopping around the yard, peering into the grass or “head-cocking” to locate a nice juicy worm. In no time, they find their prey and fly off with a mouthful.

后院里，知更鸟跳来跳去，注视着草丛，晃头晃脑地搜寻着可口多汁的昆虫。这样的情景相信大家都不陌生。一旦发现“猎物”，它马上叼着虫儿飞走了。

**测试鸟儿：**

Birds were placed in aviaries where they could be given buried mealworms in trays of dirt.

在大型鸟舍中，给鸟儿们提供面粉虫藏在泥里的托盘。

**声音线索：**

When cardboard was used as a barrier to block visual cues, the birds could still find the worms. That meant they were using another sense. A last experiment used white noise to block sound cues and the birds had more difficulty finding the worms.

用纸板作为障碍物破坏视觉线索，鸟儿依然能找到昆虫。说明鸟儿是用另种线索。最后的实验利用白色噪音破坏声音线索，鸟儿寻找昆虫困难起来了。

研究结果是知更鸟可以利用视觉或听觉中任一线索寻找泥土中的昆虫，但是也很可能是两种皆有。所以，下次你再看见知更鸟在草丛中摇头晃脑的，你可以确定它们是通过听觉寻找垂涎的美味了！