Warmer winters mean rivers and ponds are less likely to freeze, providing the little egrets with food.

暖冬意味着河流与池塘难于冰冻，这给小白鹭提供了食物。

Another species being ravaged was the snowy egret.

另一种被蹂躏的物种是白鹭。

Believing they were a sign of luck, local people initially protected the egrets and the colony grove.

当地人将其视为幸运的使者，他们最初小心保护这些白鹭和他们的栖息地。

Snowy egrets do the same thing.

白鹭也会这样做。

The rice paddies harbor tadpoles, fish and insects, and egrets have chicks to feed.

稻田成了虫、鱼、蝌蚪的庇护所，而白鹭正好以此哺育幼鸟。

He must keep great poise, like an egret.

他必须如白鹭般沉稳。

His bird-spotting book encourages residents of Beijing to look out, through the still-smoggy air, for egrets and kestrels.

他的观鸟著作使北京居民透过仍旧烟雾弥漫的天空，找寻白鹭和红隼。

But that reporter had no egrets taking the " birden" in stride, delivering an impeccable report that was like poultry in motion.

那位记者却毫不犹豫地接受了这份小鸟赐予的“负担”，最终交付了一份完美的答卷，实在是值得赞叹。

And so it led to do these great hunting efforts that were wiping out egret colonies.

因此，它给这些白鹭栖息地招致了灭顶之灾般的捕猎。

But high water doesn't touch these colonies of herons and egrets.

但是高水位不会影响这些苍鹭和白鹭的栖息地。

They've even been known to hang with other  waders like herons, egrets, and ibises.

众所周知，它们甚至会与苍鹭、白鹭和朱鹭等其他涉水动物混在一起。

Providing their colonies are protected, wading birds like egrets are among the few wild creatures which benefit directly from intensive rice cultivation.

倘若他们的栖息地是受保护的，像白鹭这样的涉禽是少数直接从发达的水稻种植中获益的野生动物。

The sea is glinting in the distance and there are egrets standing guard along the estuary, their white feathers bright against caramel-gold sandbanks.

远处的大海波光粼粼，白鹭在海岸口站岗，白色的羽毛在焦糖色沙滩的映衬下闪闪发光。

Then the sun was low and the egrets came in to roost and the ducks were arrows against the sky.

那时夕阳西下， 白鹭归巢，野鸭作逆天箭。

A white egret fished companionably with us a few yards away, and water turkeys flapped their wings lazily from high cypresses.

一只白鹭在几码外与我们友好地钓鱼， 水火鸡在高大的柏树上懒洋洋地拍打着翅膀。

The egrets are nesting when the iris blooms and fly up from their feeding like bursts of white spray as our splashing disturbs them.

鸢尾花盛开时， 白鹭正在筑巢， 我们的飞溅扰乱了它们， 它们像一阵阵白色浪花一样从它们的进食中飞了起来。

Beside the thicket was a clear pool and to this in the rosy sunset hundreds of egrets and great white herons came to drink and roost in the trees around it.

灌木丛旁边是一个清澈的池塘，在玫瑰色的夕阳下，成百上千的白鹭和大白鹭来到池塘边喝水，在周围的树上栖息。

Oh, yeah, right. There was a break-in, few months back, inside job. Your monkey was taken. Along with a snowy egret, a two-toed sloth and three hoodied sweatshirts from the zoo gift shop.

哦，对了，几个月前这里被洗劫，内贼干的，你的猴子被偷了。还有一只雪鹭，一只两脚趾的树懒，礼品店的三件运动衫也被偷了。

Another finding, the reefs host six times more species and bare mud flats as the piles of shells provide shelter for worms and small crabs, attracting a variety of animals including birds like this little egret.

另一项发现是，礁脉上的物种数量增加到了原来的六倍，裸露泥滩上成堆的贝壳为蠕虫和小螃蟹提供了庇护所，吸引了各种各样的动物，包括白鹭这样的鸟类。