物以类聚(Birds of a feather)

为了庆祝世界候鸟日，我们来到新墨西哥州南部的博斯克·德尔·阿帕奇国家野生动物保护区，加入一群沙丘鹤和它们的绿头鸭朋友们在浅水中觅食的行列。每年10月下旬开始，这个占地57000英亩的避难所成为成千上万候鸟的冬季家园，其中包括沙丘鹤和各种鹅鸭，它们从遥远的阿拉斯加和西伯利亚迁徙到温暖的气候中。他们一直呆到二月底，开始向北返回避暑别墅的旅程。由于沙山鹤可以活40年，所以这里的一些鹤可能已经在博斯克过冬了几十年。
原文：
For World Migratory Bird Day, we’ve journeyed down to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in southern New Mexico to join a group of sandhill cranes and their mallard duck friends as they feed in shallow water. Each year beginning in late October, this 57,000-acre refuge becomes the winter home to tens of thousands of migratory birds including sandhill cranes and various species of geese and ducks who travel from as far away as Alaska and Siberia to hunker down in warmer climes. They stay until late February when they begin their journey back north to their summer homes. Since sandhill cranes can live for 40 years, it’s possible a few of the cranes pictured here have been wintering in the Bosque for decades.
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