人生中的信使鸟

Message on the Mountain

1“我敢打赌，我认识一种鸟，你肯定没见过。”我的朋友向我挑战。他很清楚我是一个野生生物艺术家。迄今我已经在现场画过许多鸟类，而且编写了一本配有图示的植物学与植物寻找者指南，甚至还在自然历史博物馆做过学术报告，也曾在史密森学会教授过相关课程。“是杉树鸡。”

1 ＂I＇ll bet ! know a bird you＇ve never seen,＂ my friend challenged me. He knew that as a wildlife artist, l＇d sketched many birds, written and illustrated a botany and forager＇s guide, even lectured at the Museum of Natural History and taught at the Smithsonian Institution. ＂The spruce grouse,＂ he continued, ＂A bird that lives in the far North.＂