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Bait and Click: How China’s Bird-Loving Photogs Became a Menace

Oct 29, 2021

Three days later, a bird conservation blogger posted on Weibo a picture of the same nest from the Douyin video but taken by another photographer on a later date.

三天后，一位鸟类保护博主在微博上发布了一张斗阴视频中的同一个鸟巢的照片，但照片是另一位摄影师在晚些时候拍摄的。

This one was far from perfect: At least one chick had died, and the adult bird was seen removing the carcass. There is speculation online that it may have died from exposure to the sun.

这一只远非完美:至少有一只雏鸟死亡，有人看到成年鸟正在移除尸体。网上有猜测说它可能是因为暴露在阳光下而死亡的。

The Weibo post has since been shared more than 10,000 times and triggered widespread outrage against acts of pruning nests for better photographs. But this isn’t an isolated practice: Several long-term bird watchers and photography enthusiasts cite similar examples.

该微博帖子已被分享超过1万次，并引发了对修剪鸟巢以获得更好照片行为的广泛愤怒。但这并不是孤立的做法:一些长期观察鸟类的人和摄影爱好者举了类似的例子。

In May 2017, at the Nanhui Wetlands Park in Shanghai, the vegetation near a reed parrotbill’s nest was cut down and the bird’s chicks were nowhere to be seen; in April 2020, a photographer trimmed away all the bramble around the nest of a family of long-tailed minivets at Heilongtan Park in Kunming, leading to the death of all four during the rains a few days later.

2017年5月，在上海南汇湿地公园，一只芦苇鹦鹉巢附近的植被被砍伐，鸟的雏鸟无处可见；2020年4月，在昆明黑龙潭公园，一名摄影师修剪掉了一家长尾小兽巢穴周围的所有荆棘，导致四只小兽在几天后的雨季中全部死亡。

It’s not just the pruning of nests. Over the last few years, needles and wire hidden in food as bait have maimed countless birds while others have died from exhaustion after being chased in cars, or have been accidentally killed after being captured and taken back to studios.

不仅仅是修剪巢穴。在过去的几年里，藏在食物中作为诱饵的针和线残害了无数的鸟，而另一些鸟在被汽车追逐后因疲惫而死亡，或者在被捕获并带回工作室后意外死亡

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 bird conservation 鸟类保护 speculation 猜测
 triggered 引发vegetation 植被trimmed 修剪pruning 修筑

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The Weibo post has since been shared more than 10,000 times and triggered widespread outrage against acts of pruning nests for better photographs. 

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