【賓果33布谷鳥】
The lazy cuckoo
(賓果兒童自然科學(xué)第二輯 Go wild)

33 The lazy cuckoo 懶惰的布谷鳥
●導(dǎo)讀頁
What a strange bird
好奇怪的鳥
Look at that lazy cuckoo,
just lying around.
It wastes its days doing nothing.
But what about building a nest, hey?
The cuckoo doesn’t care.
It always planned to steal a nest anyway.
It will play its tricks on the kingfisher
and carry on living its lazy life.
游手好閑布谷鳥，
探頭探腦四處望，
巢還沒筑不慌張，
快要產(chǎn)蛋也不急。
早有預(yù)謀占鶯巢，
悄悄飛進不吱聲，
產(chǎn)完撲棱就飛走，
別人替它養(yǎng)寶寶。
●扉頁
Are you ready to find out about cuckoos?
你準(zhǔn)備好了，來了解布谷鳥嗎？
Bird | Cuckoo
鳥類 | 布谷鳥
原作者：Nopineopi 諾皮農(nóng)皮
編寫者：Lisa Regan 麗莎 里根
插畫師：Ang Sung-eun 張成恩
標(biāo)題：The lazy cuckoo 懶惰的布谷鳥
正文
●01
Cuckoos are famous for not making nests.
But they still use nests. When it is time to lay
their eggs, they just use the nests of other birds.
布谷鳥不筑巢可是出了名的，
但他們?nèi)匀恍枰C巢。
每到要產(chǎn)蛋之時，便開始用起其它鳥的巢來。
●03
Here comes the cuckoo.
See the twinkle in its eye?
‘Here we are!
I’ll lay my egg in that nest.’
It flies down to check it out.
布谷鳥來了。
看到它的眼前一亮了么？
“我來了！可以在那個巢里產(chǎn)蛋了。”
它撲啦啦地飛了過去。
●06
The cuckoo is sneaky.
It throws out an egg to make a space.
Then it lays its own egg inside.
布谷鳥先把別個的蛋扔到外面，
然后它悄悄地在巢里產(chǎn)下了自己的蛋。
●07
The kingfisher comes back to its nest.
It will take care of all these eggs until they hatch.
The lazy cuckoo’s job is done.
翠鳥回到了自己的巢內(nèi)。
它會孵出所有的這些蛋。
懶惰的布谷鳥的工作完成了。
●08
Redstarts make their nests near people.
Cuckoos use their nests, too.
紅尾鴝[qú]（redstart）把它們的巢筑在靠近人的地方。
布谷鳥也同樣用它們的巢。
Cuckoos invade the nests of kingfishers, redstarts, shrikes and parrotbills.
布谷鳥入侵翠鳥、紅尾鴝、伯勞鳥、雅雀的巢。
This parrotbill is going to care for the cuckoo egg without realising it.
這一只雅雀在渾然不知的情況下，即將照看布谷鳥的蛋。
●10
Crack!
The baby cuckoo hatches from its egg.
When it is out of its shell, it pushes the other eggs out of the nest.
咔嚓！
布谷鳥寶寶破殼而出。
當(dāng)它從它的殼里面出來，它把其它的蛋推出巢外。
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Now the baby cuckoo has the nest to itself.
It opens its mouth and calls that it is hungry.
The other mother feeds it as if it were her own chick.
布谷鳥寶寶獨自霸占著鳥巢。
它肚子餓了，咕咕大叫。
翠鳥媽媽把銜來的食物，當(dāng)成自己的寶寶喂給它。
●14
As time goes on, the baby cuckoo grows
much bigger than the kingfisher.
時光輾轉(zhuǎn)，布谷鳥寶寶長得比翠鳥大得多多了。
●16
When the kingfisher leaves the nest to find food,
the baby cuckoo practises its flying in secret.
當(dāng)翠鳥離巢覓食，布谷鳥寶寶偷偷地練習(xí)飛行。
●17
The time has come for the cuckoo to leave the nest.
布谷鳥離巢的時間到了。
●20
Even after the cuckoo has left,
the kingfisher still finds it and feeds it.
Kingfishers are too caring!
Can’t you see, silly kingfisher, that the
cuckoo is much bigger than you now!
即使布谷鳥離開了，翠鳥仍然找到它并給它喂食。
翠鳥太呵護它了！
難道你看不到么，傻翠鳥，布谷鳥現(xiàn)在可比你大太多太多了！
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Now the cuckoo is big enough to catch food for itself.
It eats insects and will even gobble up caterpillars that other birds avoid.
現(xiàn)在，布谷鳥長得足夠大來靠自己捕食了。
它吃昆蟲，甚至也把其它鳥不吃的毛毛蟲一口吞掉。
●23
In autumn, the cuckoo spreads its wings and flies south.
在秋天，布谷鳥伸展著翅膀，往南飛。
●24
When spring comes, the cuckoo returns.
Now it needs another nest to steal.
來年春天，布谷鳥回來了。
它又會竄頭竄腦竊取其它鳥的鳥巢了吧？
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Find out more!
了解更多！
Cruel cuckoo babies
殘酷的布谷鳥寶寶
① A baby cuckoo hatches first.
② It pushes the other eggs out of the nest.
③ It will keep pushing them out until the nest is empty.
① 一只布谷鳥寶寶首先孵出
② 它把其它的蛋推出巢外
③ 它不斷地往外推蛋，直到巢被清空
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④ A baby cuckoo wants to have the nest all to itself.
⑤ The kingfisher takes care of the cuckoo until it is grown up.
① 布谷鳥寶寶想要獨占窩巢
② 翠鳥照顧布谷鳥，直到它長大成年
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Cuckoo Facts
布谷鳥二三事
A cuckoo calling...
The male cuckoo calls to let other males know to stay away.
What does it say?
‘Cuck-oo! Cuck-oo!’ That’s how it gets
its name. The female cuckoo makes a
different noise. It sounds like bubbling,
burbling water.
布谷鳥的叫喚
雄性布谷鳥叫囂著，示意其它雄性都離遠(yuǎn)點。
他說些什么呢？“布-谷！布-谷！”這也是它名字的由來。
雌性布谷鳥發(fā)出來的聲音不同。她的聲音就像在冒泡，如潺潺[chán] 水流之聲。
Where do kingfishers go?
Kingfishers fly away from their home
to get away from bad weather. This is
called migration. Kingfishers migrate
in the spring. They are useful birds,
as they eat pests that are found on farms.
翠鳥去哪啦？
翠鳥為了躲避惡劣的氣候，會離家飛走。
這種情形稱為遷徙。翠鳥在春天遷徙。
它們是益鳥，它們吃害蟲，在農(nóng)地能找到它們。
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Bird | Cuckoo
鳥類 | 布谷鳥
In the nest
Kingfishers build a bowl-shaped nest.
This one contains a cuckoo egg. Can
you tell which it is? (That’s right, it is
the biggest one, with a slightly different
pattern.)
巢中
翠鳥會筑一個碗形巢。
這一個（圖）包含一顆布谷鳥蛋。
你能分辨誰是誰么？
（對了，最大的那一顆，圖案也是相當(dāng)?shù)牟煌?。?Keeping watch
A cuckoo will watch a shrike coming
and going from its nest. It needs to
get the timing just right so the shrike
thinks the cuckoo egg is its own.
盯梢
布谷鳥會盯梢[shāo]伯勞鳥從它自己的巢中進進出出。
它需要找準(zhǔn)時機來讓伯勞鳥誤把布谷鳥的蛋當(dāng)成它自己的。