Birds: The World’s Most Remarkable Creatures鸟类，世界上最非凡的生物

The first bird I fell in love with—my “spark bird”—was soaring in the northeastern Florida sky one May many years ago， its pointed wings spread gracefully and its deeply forked tail gently twisting to guide its curving flight. The black-and-white coloration was distinctive， and I rushed to a local used bookstore for what would become the first of many field guides on my shelves. A few flips of the pages， and I knew I’d seen a swallow-tailed kite1， an elegant raptor that is a summer visitor to Florida and the southeastern United States.

多年前的一个五月，我爱上的第一只鸟——我的“心动之鸟”——正在佛罗里达州东北部的天空翱翔。（剩余8598字）