1. While local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts, the tern flies on.
当地的海鸥会贪婪地扑向这些施舍的食物,而燕鸥会继续飞行。
youdao
2. A variety of seabirds and shorebirds inhabit the islands, including the endangered brown pelican, least tern, and piping plover.
岛上栖息着各种各样的海鸟和滨鸟,包括濒危的褐鹈鹕、最小燕鸥和笛鸻。
youdao
3. The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose.
4. When they get a tern or pelican to drop a fish, they plunge down and grab it off the surface of the water, which may have been how this bird got oiled.
5. An arctic tern, on its 20,000 km flight from the extreme south of South America to the Arctic circle, will take no notice of a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher's boat along the way.