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/view/127489/1355189.11事件九周年纪念光碑导致数千候鸟被困By /wiredscience/author/brandon9keim/Brandon Keim mailto:brandon@由Brandon Keim报导September 14, 2010 | 2010年9月14日5:34 pm | 下午5点34分Categories: /wiredscience/category/animals/Animals 文章分类：动物On the evening of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery.2010年9.11纪念活动当夜，从纽约世贸中心遗址处发出两道光束，带着人们深切的哀思，射向茫茫夜空。Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiraling, unlike anything seen on other nights. Some viewers wondered if they were scraps of paper or plastic caught in updrafts from the spotlights’ heat. From beneath, it was at times like gazing into a snowstorm. It was hard not to think of souls.人们很快在光柱中发现大量的白色物体，它们在光束中闪闪发光、旋转飞舞，看上去跟平时夜空中看到的物体很不一样。有些人以为这些物体可能是聚光灯发光时产生的热量捕捉到的漂浮在高空的纸片或塑料碎片。从下面往上看时，就像在暴风雪中抬头看到的一样，让人不禁想起了逝去的那些亡灵。Those unidentified objects have now been identified as birds, pulled from their migratory path and bedazzled by the light in a perfect, poignant storm of avian disorientation.这些不明物体现在被证实是一群鸟类，它们在夜里进行迁徙，结果被光束吸引。光束扰乱了它们原来的迁徙路线，使其完全迷失了方向只能原地徘徊，才出现了当时似雪片飞舞、让人愈加心碎的一幕。“It’s only happened once before. It’s a confluence of circumstances that come together to cause this,” said John Rowden, citizen science director at the Audubon Society’s /New York chapter. “Some of it has to do with meteorological conditions, and some with the phase of the moon.”对此，美国奥杜邦环保协会纽约分会公民科学处处长约翰.劳登表示“这种情况之前曾发生过一次，造成这种现象是由多种原因综合作用而成。有的与当时气象条件有关，有的则与月相有关。”New York City sits in the middle of a major migration corridor, used for millennia by birds flying south for the winter. During autumn nights, thousands of birds pass directly above the megalopolis, a passage generally unnoticed by its human inhabitants.纽约市坐落于一条鸟类的主迁徙“长廊”的中间，这条长廊近千年来一直是众多要飞到南方过冬的候鸟的必经之路。每年秋季的夜晚，数以千计的候鸟直接从纽约这个巨大的城市群的上空掠过，而通常这时居住在地面上的人们对此毫不知情。During the previous week, weather was bad for migration. Tropical storm systems moved north up the U.S. East Coast,