养鸽家生态家—— 一只鸽子的故事
郭晋勇，作者的博客：dongguo教授
此文由一名美国女士所写，博主翻译，插蓝鸟、玫瑰胸腊嘴鸟和库珀隼图
Flighter the Homing Pigeon 天使信鸽
In early July 1998, we were visited by a homing pigeon who stayed for 5 days. We named him Flighter. Below is Flighter's story along with several photos.
1988年7月一只信鸽拜访了我们，和我们呆了五天，我们称它天使。下面就是天使的故事和几张照片。
July 7, 1998:
该天下午，我向前门走去，看到一只鸽子在车道上游荡。我知道许多人不喜欢鸽子，我却很喜欢。很多鸽子羽毛很漂亮，我所见的鸽子又不多，因此很喜欢它。至此我家财产清单上还没有鸽子呢！啊，我看到它后，回头将这个消息告诉大家。我们大家都注视着它在啄吃沙粒和给斑鸠吃的小米粒。我们看了个够，并录了像。
After having the pigeon out there for 10 minutes or so, I went out with the video camera and a handful of pet cockatiel seed mix(lots of different kind of seeds in the mix). I kept sslloowwlly going toward him, and put the handful of seed on the driveway. I was about 20 feet from him. I then slowly started coming back, and was 20 feet away from the seed when he began to eatit; I was still getting him on film. After he had eaten his choice seeds and started walking around, I dropped some sunflower seeds on the ground at my feet. He came closer until he was only 12-15 feet away! :-)
大约十来分钟后，我拿着录像机，抓了一把宠物鸟混合食，很慢很慢地朝鸽子走去，将食物撒在路上。我离食物约
I came back in and the pigeon continued to eat. He came down the walk to the house, and came 10 feet from the house looking for seeds.
About 20 minutes later, I went out again with more cockatiel seed, and put a handful half way between the house and where I had put it before.
我退了回来，而鸽子继续吃它的食，然后走到离屋子
His favorite food is safflower seeds, followed by buckwheat and black oil sunflower seeds. After we was stuffed full, he started walking toward the house again, then flew. It looked like he was flying right for the window we were at but, in fact, he landed on the roof about 2 feet above the window, then walked up to the peak of the roof.
它爱吃的首先是红花籽，其次是荞麦，再次就是黑葵花籽。我们吃完饭后，它又向屋子走来，然后飞起，看着像是飞到我们窗前，但却是窗子上方
The pigeon sat on the roof and rested for at least 45 minutes. Chandra (sister) looked out of the window just in time to see him fly. He flew around the neighborhood, and and a few minutes after he took off, we watched him dive back down onto the roof. He sat there till about 7:00pm approximately, when he left (we didn't see it) for the night.
鸽子在屋顶休息了约45分钟，桑德拉伸头朝窗外看时，正赶上它飞起。它在邻居屋子上飞了几分钟后，又翔回到我们的屋顶上，7：00点左右它飞走了，整晚未回。
It is obvious that this is a racing/homing pigeon, because he had a blue leg band on his left leg and a green band on his right leg. I wonder where he was from?
显然它是一只参赛信鸽，它左脚上有一只蓝色脚环，右脚上有只绿的，不知其来自何处？
July 8, 1998:
The pigeon came back today and was on the roof a lot. He sat there in the rain for most of the day and came down to eat a few times. He again left at aproximately 7:00pm, Eastern.
今天鸽子又回来了，并长时间呆在屋顶，它在雨中呆了大半天，然后下来吃了几次，此后约在7：00点又飞走了，往东边飞去了。
July 9, 1998:
This morning at 8:30am, I looked out the window there were doves on both platforms and the ground, Blue Jays flying around in the trees and going onto the feeders, and about 3 Rose Breasted Grosbeaks in the trees about to go onto a hopper feeder. Then a couple of doves flew off of the ground, and the grosbeaks flew. All of the other birds stayed. I started looking on the ground for predators, and just then, a Cooper's Hawk came diving out of a tree (!?!). His dive was pretty slow, but even so, he almost grabbed a dove off of one platform (he missed by a foot, because the doves finally flew!). He then turned around, and went back by the rest of the feeders, where the Blue Jays were. The Blue Jays started jaying, and flew in all directions. I heard one or two squawk, but I don't know if he got one or not, on his flight away.
图片nathanorlando.com
今天早上8：00，我朝窗外看去，看到台栏上和地上有斑鸠，蓝鸟在树丛中飞然后来到食槽，树上的三只玫瑰胸腊嘴鸟也正要飞到食槽。此时几只斑鸠飞了起来，腊嘴鸟也飞了起来，其他的则原地不动了，我正看是否来了不速之客时，突然一只库珀隼从树丛中冲出，直扑向斑鸠。虽然其速度并不快 ，但只差几厘米就抓住了一只在走廊上的斑鸠了。库珀隼又掉转头朝食槽飞来，冲蓝鸟而去。蓝鸟叫个不停，朝四处飞散。我听到有一两声喳喳惨叫，但不知抓到没有。
The pigeon did not came back this morning. I went and restocked the feeders at nearly 2:00pm. When I was done, I came back. I was getting near the house, and looked at my dog, about 40 feet away. I then looked back in the direction that I was walking to see the pigeon 5 feet away, running to avoid my approaching feet! I had been walking at a "normal" pace! I put some sunflower seeds on the ground there, and he kept running until he was 20 feet away.
今天早上鸽子没来，约2：00时我重新移动了食槽，正走回屋子，看见我的狗在十来米处，我转回头在
I came in the house, grabbed some cockatiel seed, and put it around where I put the sunflower seeds. I came in and he wandered over and ate the sunflower seeds. I had heard that they like cracked corn, so I took some out and approached him. He kept coming closer till he was 20 feet away, then flew to the roof of the house.
Later in the afternoon, he came down and didn't want to eat the cracked corn. We put more safflower out for him. He came down twice more, but he was interrupted. Once, the door opened and scared him, the other time, a vehicle came in the driveway.
我回到屋子，抓了些鸟混合料放在有葵花籽的地方。我边走边吃葵花籽，据说鸽子喜欢吃磨碎的玉米，于是我抓了一些走近它。走到五六米处时，它飞到了屋顶上。午后它又飞下来，但并不想吃碎玉米。我们抓了更多的红花籽给它。它飞下屋顶两次，受惊了两次，一次是开门声，另一次是汽车开来声。
** 96 1192
WW
I can't make it look the same by typing! :-) The ** is where there was something I didn't get a chance to read.
在炙热的屋顶呆了一整天，它在7：45左右飞走了。在它距离屋子很近时，我用望远镜观察它。它左脚上有只淡蓝色的脚环，右脚上有只淡绿色的，绿色环上的字是**96-1192ww.当然不会像打字那么一目了然，我没有机会将那**字看清楚。
July 10, 1998:
We first saw the pigeon at 9:00 am this morning. He stayed around all day. We left to go visit some friends at 5:30 or so and when we got back around 8:30pm, he was gone.
July 11, 1998:
I went outside at 7:45am this morning, and the pigeon was on the roof already; the safflower seeds on the driveway were gone. Around 9:30am or so, he came back down onto the driveway and I got to read the other two missing letters on the green band! Now, the
CU 96 1192
WW
According to a website I found, this is what the band means:
CU = Canadian Racing Pigeon Union
WW = A member's ID of the CU.
96 = The year that the pigeon was banded. He is 2 years old.
1192 = The pigeons individual ID number
今天一早7：45我走出去，鸽子已经在屋顶上了，地上的红花籽已经被吃光。9：30时左右鸽子飞到了地上，我又仔细查看了脚环上的字，哦！环号是CU-96-1192WW。在互联网上我得知CU是加拿大信鸽联合会。WW是会员识别号，96是戴环年份，鸽子两岁了，1192是鸽子识别号。
The pigeon stayed around until about 5:00pm. We checked for him, but he was not around. About 45 minutes later, I looked out the window to see 20 Mourning Doves with him in the middle, eating the seed on the driveway. When the doves flew, he went onto the roof. A while later, I went outside, and he was gone again. I went out to the clothes line, where my mom was and informed her. Just then, he same soaring in like a mini jet over the tops of some trees, where a neighbor has their pond. He soared in, and landed on the roof; I wonder if he went to get a drink? 5 minutes later, he was again gone. I went around back, to make sure that he wasn't on the other side of the roof. Just then, again, he came soaring like a jet, and landed on the roof. He was around for 20-30 minutes before Chandra saw him go South-West toward a neighbors house. That was the last that we saw of him tonight.
鸽子呆到5：00点就不见了，45分钟后看到它在20多只斑鸠中吃食，斑鸠一飞，它就上了屋顶，一会我出去，它又不见了。我走到晒衣线妈妈那儿跟她说话，正巧见那鸽子在树梢上像滑翔机一样飞翔，树林那边有邻居的一个水池。它飞了回来落在屋顶上。想必它是去喝水了。5分钟后，它又不见了。我到处找它，并去查看了屋顶另一侧，突然又见它像滑翔机一样落在屋顶上。它又呆了20-30分钟，最后桑德拉看见它飞到了西南边邻居家那边去。这是今天最后一次见到它。
July 12, 1999:
The Pigeon did not came back today. I guess he must have gone back to
Contacting Flighter's owner
We finally managed to get in contact via phone with someone at the CU and got some information about Flighter's owner; his name, address and phone number. It is expensive to call
与天使的主人联系
最终我还是电话到了加拿大信鸽协会的人，弄清了天使的主人，姓名，地址及电话号码。因打电话太贵了（一分钟50毛），所以我选择了写信。我问了鸽子回去没有，在何地放飞的等等。一年过去了，我至今没有收到回音，也许我应该在给鸽子的主人写信。
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