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05:52 Roy Dennis VO
Higher still, the elegant kittiwake is more of a perfectionist.
再往高一些，奇迪威鸟则是更加完美主义。
05:58 Roy Dennis VO
These high-rise dwellers build a perfect cup nest, giving their youngsters a safer start.
海鸟生命很长，有记录称管鼻鹱理论上可以活50年。这对鸟儿可以花上40年代时间来哺育小鸟！
04:47 Roy Dennis VO
They have such a short summer window to get it right so they need to get straight on with the job of raising young.
奇迪--威，奇迪--威。这个叫声正代表了这片海鸟栖息地。
06:24 Roy Dennis VO
The crowning glory of this seabird city is of course the puffins! They take the penthouses, the grassy cliff tops with the best views. And they act as if they own the place.
and the last two years it’s been disastrous and this year I really want to know what is going on, what are the factors that are causing this tremendous change.
我们最主要的几个海鸟栖息地。
of call is the most northerly point of Britain, way
我的第一站就是在英国最北的地方，
above the Scottish mainland, the Shetland isles.
在苏格兰大陆上方的设得兰群岛。
02:42 Roy Dennis VO
至少这几年是如此。在那边，在北海的中心，右手边就是我原来住和工作的地方，
the tiny island of Fair Isle.
小小的费尔岛。
03:02 Roy Dennis VO
Fingers crossed, thousands of seabirds will have arrived ahead of me.
More than a million seabirds breed on these islands.
超过一百万的海鸟在这些岛屿上繁殖。
It’s the most fantastic place for them,
这是它们最钟爱的地方，
or at least it was until recent years. And there right out in the middle of the North Sea is my old home andworkplace
离它们最近的邻居是长鼻鸬鹚，长得有点像史前动物，但是至少它们不怕麻烦建了一个鸟巢，虽然只是一堆乱七八糟的海草。
05:32 Roy Dennis VO
In good years, each pair can fledge up to three chicks.
情况好的年份，每对鸟可以养大三只雏鸟
05:40 Roy Dennis VO
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02:21 Roy Dennis VO
It’s the start of the 2006 breeding season.
20’m going to be spending the summer
而我今年夏天就要开始拜访
visiting some of our most important seabird colonies. My first port
过去的两年里情况真是糟糕透了。今年我很想知道到底是怎么回事，到底是什么引起了这么巨大的变化。
04:18 Roy Dennis VO
At first glance, everything seems busy as usual. After a winter spent at sea, these adults have come back to breed, to the same nests, to the same mate.
这个悬崖的每个角落都挤满了各种鸟，真是神奇啊。
05:06 Roy Dennis VO
The razorbills claim the boulder beaches.
海雀们占领了石块散落的海滩。
05:12 Roy Dennis VO
They lay a single egg loose amongst the stones.
乍看之下，一切都忙碌而平常。在海上度过了冬天之后，成年海鸟都回到老巢，和原来的伴侣繁殖。
04:33 Roy Dennis VO
Seabirds live for a long time a fulmar has been recorded living to fifty in theory
this pair could spend forty seasons raising chicks!
上帝保佑，马上就会有几千只的海鸟来到我面前了。
03:38 Roy Dennis PTC
I lived here in the 1960s, for seven years I was the warden of the bird observatory and my summer work was research
它们只有夏天这么短的时间可以做正事，因此他们要直入主题地开始养孩子的工作。
04:58 Roy Dennis VO
It’s amazing in these colonies how every part of the cliff is bagged by one species or another.
它们随意地在石块间下一个蛋。
05:18 Roy Dennis VO
Their nearest neighbours, the shags, may be prehistoric looking, but at least they take the trouble to build a nest even if it’s just an untidy pile of seaweed.
03:55 Roy Dennis PTC
But from a peak of more than a quarter of a million birds in the early 1990’s they’ve started to decline
但是从90年初，数量到达超过25万只左右的高峰时，就开始下降了。
is to sit in the sun on a lovely June day like this amongst the puffins.
最享受的事莫过于在六月里，在这样可爱的一天，坐在阳光下，周围环绕着剪水鹱。
It’s one of the real wildlife spectacles of the British Isles.
这是不列颠岛最真实的野生奇观之一。
在这个海鸟之城中，最荣耀的当属剪水鹱了！它们住在顶层，在长满小草的峭壁顶上，风景绝佳。它们也表现出一副占山为王的感觉。
06:40 Roy Dennis PTC
There’s nothing more enjoyable for visitors to seabird islands,
对那些来海鸟岛参观的人们来说，
在如此高的地方栖息，它们把鸟巢盖成了一个完美的杯状，让幼鸟能更加安全。
These graceful birds are so named because of their call. Listen.
这些优雅的鸟儿们得名于它们的叫声。听。
06:15 Roy Dennis VO
Kitti-wake, kitti-wake. A sound that embodies the seabird colony.
我从60年代开始住在那儿，当了7年鸟类观察站的看守人。
on seabirds which at that time were doing incredibly well and all of the populations were increasing.
我夏天的工作就是调查那些海鸟，那个时候进行的很顺利，鸟的数量一直在上升。
Moving up the cliff face, the guillemots chance the ledges. This precarious lifestyle may explain why they only attempt to raise one chick.
顺着悬崖表面向上，海鸠冒险把巢建在突出的岩石上。这也许可以解释为什么他们每次只试图养一只雏鸟。