詞語：cowbirds
cowbirds的解釋
cowbirds['kau,bə:d]n. [鳥]（北美產的）燕八哥
cowbirds的意思
cowbirds 牛鸝;
cowbirds的參考例句
1.Branches bend under the weight of mixed flocks of blackbirds, cowbirds and starlings, a hundred thousand strong, gathering for mass migrations. 一群群的各種黑鳥、燕八哥和椋鳥聚集在一起，有十萬之眾，把許多樹枝都壓彎了。它們聚在一起要進行大規模的遷徙。
2.we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. 我們不喜歡燕八哥和杜鵑，它們跑到別個鳥禽所築造的巢中去下蛋，那嘰嘰喳喳的不協和樂音並不能使行路經過的人聽了快樂。
3.Among vertebrates, the best konow social parasites are such birds as cuckoos and cowbirds; the female lays an egg in a nest belonging to another species and leaves it for the host to rear. 脊椎動物中，最有名的寄生生物，如杜鵑、牛鸝，它們的雌鳥在其它鳥的巢中產卵，並靠巢的主人飼養其後代。