Flying through the skies of New York with its tall buildings can be a real challenge for birds migrating (迁徙) from Central or South America to the Arctic Circle during the spring and fall migration seasons. Fortunately, more and more of them can reach their destination thanks to the help of kind humans.
Project Safe Flight is a program from New York City Audubon, a community that has been working to protect birds in NYC for over 40 years. This project helps save injured birds that collide (相撞) with the reflective glass so common in many tall buildings.
Each time these volunteers find a survivor, they take it to the Wild Bird Fund. Its purpose is to provide medical care to native and passing migrant wildlife so that they can be released (释放) back into the wild. Under their care, these feathered friends can rest, are properly fed, and are also given the medical treatment they need.
Once the patients feel better, they spend time with other recovered birds until they become healthy enough to return to freedom. This takes place in the spring, when they’re released in Central Park, or in the fall, when they’re released out of town to make sure that their path doesn’t take them in the neighborhood of lower Manhattan’s dangerous buildings.
Nearly a billion birds are killed each year in the US from collisions with windows, the Audubon Society reports. In New York City alone, between 90 and 230 thousand migratory birds die yearly from window collisions, as detailed by Curbed. This occurs mostly during the spring and fall migration seasons.
Bright lights and reflective glass buildings attract and then befuddle birds because they look through them and they think they’re seeing the sky. So the dBird database is key to making policymakers learn more clearly about specific hotspots (多事之地) and thus take preventive steps accordingly to protect the lovely creatures. These include making sure that visual indicators (视觉指示器) are added to tall buildings, or that lights are turned off at night.
32. How do the volunteers help injured birds?
A.By taking injured birds home. |
B.By releasing injured birds back into the wild. |
C.By having injured birds taken good care of. |
D.By equipping buildings with visual indicators. |
33. What is the purpose of the fifth paragraph?
A.To explain the side effects of migration. |
B.To introduce some human threats to birds. |
C.To draw more attention to the Audubon community. |
D.To show the importance of the Project Safe Flight program. |
34. What does the underlined word “befuddle” in the last paragraph mean?
A.Trap. | B.Injure. | C.Confuse. | D.Assist. |
35. Which can be the best title for the text?
A.Watching Birds in New York | B.Helping New York Birds |
C.Taking Good Care of Birds | D.Setting Up a Program in New York |