谁在打盹儿？ | 博斯克·德尔·阿帕奇国家野生动物保护区的沙丘鹤，美国新墨西哥州 Sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA (© Jay Goodrich/Tandem Stills + Motion) – 立刻壁应

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博斯克·德尔·阿帕奇国家野生动物保护区的沙丘鹤

博斯克·德尔·阿帕奇国家野生动物保护区的沙丘鹤,嘿，打个盹儿怎么了，这些鸟儿现在可是精疲力尽呢！这张照片拍摄于新墨西哥州南部的博斯克·德尔·阿帕奇国家野生动物保护区，这些沙丘鹤正站在水里睡觉。每年万圣节前后，这些鸟儿会陆续抵达，上万只沙丘鹤会在这里待到次年二月。它们吃什么呢？沙丘鹤并不挑食，什么都吃，植物、谷物、昆虫、蜗牛，它们甚至还吃蛇。每年冬天，沙丘鹤都在这片美丽的庇护地，和其他各种鸟儿一起度过。从阿拉斯加和西伯利亚远道而来的鸣鹤、鸭子和雪雁也喜欢在这里中途休息，等到天气变暖后，它们再一路向北前往繁殖地。幸好，这儿地方够大，5.7万英亩的保护区有足够的空间让它们自由翱翔。

Sandhill cranes, New Mexico, USA

Migrating is tiring work! These sandhill cranes are asleep while standing in the waters of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in southern New Mexico in the United States. The birds start arriving around the end of October each year, and as many as 10,000 of them will stay to rest and feed in local fields until February. What’s on the menu? Well, sandhill cranes aren’t picky; they’ll eat whatever’s available, from plants and grains, to insects, snails and even snakes. And they have plenty of avian company at this beautiful refuge each winter – whooping cranes, ducks and snow geese from as far away as Alaska and Siberia also choose Bosque del Apache as a favourite resting spot before travelling north to their breeding grounds when the days get warmer. Thankfully, there’s plenty of room at the 23,000-hectare refuge.