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[ti:潮涌海岸 50] |
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[ar:英语听力] |
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As the water level falls, birds begin to gather. |
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Herons, egrets and cormorants mingle with a far rarer visitor, the black-faced spoonbill. |
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These endangered migrants have travelled the length of the Chinese coastline from Northern China and Korea. |
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Mai Po marks the end of a 2,000-kilometre journey during which the birds may have lost up to a third of their body weight. |
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Four hundred black-faced spoonbills, a quarter of the world's population, pass the winter here. |
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At low water, trapped shrimps and fish become easy prey, |
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a life saver for these endangered birds. |