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2004-11-8 15:46:00
我的第一次观鸟报告

上周五（11月5日）我参加了由北京观鸟会组织的黄河三角洲湿地观鸟活动，国外叫观鸟旅游，一行20人，由“绿家园”的张玲(green_earth@yeah.net) 女士带队。当天晚上我们在东营市垦利大桥宾馆会合，草草安歇一夜无话。第二天一早出发，由黄河三角洲国家级自然保护区管理局的单凯先生带领考察了“大汶流”、“孤北水库”等几处鸟类栖息地。

对于观鸟来说，我是菜鸟，但我注意观鸟活动至少有六七年了，欧洲的BIRD WATCHING，北美的BIRDING和BACKYARD BIRD FEEDING，据说观鸟活动在欧美已经有上百年的历史了，我们在去东营观鸟时，山东电视台的记者尾随而至，她们对观鸟者的动机颇感兴趣，就象国人对前几年兴起的登山运动的动机感兴趣一样，对西方人如此痴迷于这种危险的勾当不可理解。或问“为什么登山？”，答曰“因为山在那里！”；哈佛的一位物理学博士专门考察登山运动的动机，写了一本书，名字《登山是受苦受难的艺术》“MOUNTAINEERING IS THE ART OF SUFFERING”。这又是一个明证，证明中国文化传统有一个致命的弱点，“孔子不言怪、力、乱、神”，儒家文化太过热中于处理人际关系的技巧，而轻视考察人类对自然的关系，我听过一位著名的天体物理学家某某某先生的讲座，他说中国人讲“杞人无事忧天倾”，从来没有人关心为什么天不会掉下来，欧洲人一直在思考这个问题，结果牛顿发现了万有引力，创立了西方工业文明数百年的科学基础。

周六晚上张玲女士组织了一个报告会，“光明日报”的记者冯永峰说，中国的教育是应试教育，轻视向大自然学习，我们缺了最重要的一课。今年以来，内地各省纷纷成立观鸟会组织，我注意到有厦门观鸟会、深圳观鸟会、成都观鸟会、东营市观鸟会和今年十月一日成立的北京观鸟会，我们有许多课要补！前几天，在北京还是哪个城市有一个昆虫展，门厅冷落，中国学生嫌昆虫脏！ 用GOOGLE查看关键词“BIRD WATCHING”“BIRDING”，都能得到百万条搜索结果，我这里毋庸赘述。

我的第一次观鸟报告只是一些感想，如上所述。我再一次感受到中国为什么落后，人事障碍太多，勾心斗角太多；北美移民乘“五月花”号船到达北美大陆时，艰难险恶的生存条件，迫使最早的移民很好地实现自我管理的内部机制，因为内耗会提高生存的成本，降低生活质量，制约社会进步。

“观鸟是你一生走入大自然的门票！”
BIRD WATCHING IS YOUR LIFETIME TICKET TO THE THEATER OF NATURE！

欢迎“博客中国”的网友加入！

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[丫丫]

呵呵~~~阅！

[清道夫]

“观鸟是你一生走入大自然的门票！”BIRD WATCHING IS YOUR LIFETIME TICKET TO THE THEATER OF NATURE！

严重同意，偶顶！

[寥寥]

哈哈，清道夫是否忙着清道，有段日子没出现了~~~

[山娃子]

好文。

[羽翎]

楼主是哪一位“XP”啊，厦门的XP吗？请问我们的会员申请可以重名吗？

[小鹏]

呵呵，羽翎大哥 就是我啊 我只是换了换图标

[羽翎]

哦，是一件马甲啊

[鹫]

“观鸟是你一生走入大自然的门票！”BIRD WATCHING IS YOUR LIFETIME TICKET TO THE THEATER OF NATURE！

严重同意，偶顶！

多好的标语呀，建议我军采用

[上尉]

阅，来自头脑发自内心...好文！

[猫头鹰]

"中国的教育是应试教育，轻视向大自然学习，我们缺了最重要的一课。"

说得很好。
中学的时候经常盼着上自然劳动课，因为和其它课形式不一样，又能实际接触到花花草草，非常有意思。可惜经常上了一次就没有下次了，平均一学期都没有一次课。

[快乐蜂]

下期的鹭岛鸟语又多一篇好文！

[布谷]

此文写得好。不过我们的先人对大自然的观察、在自然科学领域的贡献是世人共知的，只是近几个世纪落伍了。抓紧直追，大家努力吧！

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作者后来在文章中又加了个链接：http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3769202

Starling-struck
Mar 17th 2005 From The Economist print edition

Why birds are making so many Brits twitch with excitement

WHICH organisation, founded by a group of Manchester ladies worried about the use of feathers in the hat trade, has more members than the three main political parties in Britain put together? The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which was created to publicise the plight of egrets and great crested grebes, is by far the largest organisation of its type in the world, with over 1m members. Not content with lobbying for birds, the RSPB also runs 30 large bird sanctuaries in Britain, and is in the middle of creating a big new one in Cambridgeshire. The reasons for the RSPB's anomalous success—a mixture of geography, history and plain happenstance—illustrate some ways in which Britain is different.

First, Britain has little spare countryside for birds to flit around in. In France, where hunters have been known to demonstrate for their right to shoot migrating birds, the notion that bird habitats could disappear seems laughable: there's just so much space. In densely populated Britain, where there are 246 people per square kilometre, compared with 110 in France, the spare land tends to be used for agriculture. Some birds live happily with that. But others have found intensive farming impossible to cope with, and the number of species has declined. Shrinking numbers get birds publicity, so there may be a causal relationship between their declining numbers and growing popularity (see chart).

Second, Britons are atypically enthusiastic about animals. Last weekend, around 5m tuned in to watch Crufts, a competition for dogs which involves manicured pooches trotting around an astroturf arena, interspersed with heart-warming tales about hero dogs rescuing people. When it comes to getting people to fork out, animal charities do better than charities for the blind, the deaf and the elderly put together. In France, schoolchildren sing a nursery rhyme encouraging them to pluck feathers from a lark. A tiny tot doing the same in Britain would probably be referred to the social services.


Third, Britain's geography makes it a particularly eventful place for bird-lovers. With one toe dipped in the Atlantic and another in the North Sea, Britain is a refuge for birds that get blown off course while migrating. The Isles of Scilly (off the south-west coast) can snare birds from Bermuda, while Fair Isle (off the north-eastern tip) gets visits from birds that belong in Siberia. Of the 400 different birds that a dedicated birdwatcher may hope to see in Britain and Ireland, only 220 are regular residents. The arrival of a rare one is a little like a visit from a movie star: in Hollywood a sighting barely interrupts the slurping of a milk-shake; in Sheffield it would stop traffic.

A whole subculture—that of the twitcher, as the most dedicated birdwatchers are known, to the annoyance of some of them—has grown up around these celebrity appearances. There are a few thousand twitchers in Britain, according to Stephen Moss, author of a social history of birdwatching. alerted by pagers or e-mail, they will travel long distances to see a rare bird. Like all successful subcultures, twitching has its own rules, language and demi-gods. A “dip” is a failed “twitch”, meaning that the bird flew off before the twitcher arrived, preventing him from “ticking”, or recording, it. A UTV (untickable view) refers to a sighting too fleeting or hazy to be counted. “Suppression”, which is when news of a rare bird's arrival is kept quiet until after it has left, is a sin. Those who dedicate themselves to twitching can hope to join the 400 Club, whose members have all seen at least that number of species in Britain and Ireland.

The reasons why twitching appeals to white British males (there are few female or ethnic-minority twitchers) are not clear. Popular explanations include the Protestant work ethic (people feel guilty about lying around doing nothing, and so fill their leisure time with pseudo-useful things), Freudian psychology (a repressed male sexual urge leads to compulsive behaviour) and neuro psychology (type-S brains, more common among men, like making lists and cataloguing things; type-E brains, more common among women, don't). If the Freudians are right, perhaps twitching is just trainspotting for the post-industrial age

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这么多豆芽菜可看惨了

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这么多豆芽菜可看惨了

呵呵 刚好让你练习英文啊