获4成选票 黑顶山雀膺温哥华市鸟

[Devon]

　　经过公众激列投票角逐，温哥华市政府选定黑顶山雀(Black-Capped Chickadee)为「市鸟」，黑顶山雀也将成为2015年「雀鸟周」(Bird Week)推广活动的主角。

　　温市府上周宣布投票选出「市鸟」活动，让民众登入公园局网站票选，并列出6种温市常见的「候选鸟」供市民票选，分别是安娜蜂鸟(Anna's Hummingbird)、黑顶山雀、杂色鸫(Varied Thrush)、太平洋鹪鹩(Pacific Wren)、红冠黑啄木鸟(Pileated Woodpecker)及北方扑翅鴷(Northern Flicker)。

　　投票70万人次

　　投票上周六截止，超过70万人次涌入网站投票，结果由温哥华公共图书馆於当晚揭晓。黑顶山雀以39%的得票率，压过29%的杂色鸫夺冠。

　　安娜蜂鸟以17%的得票率获第三，北方扑翅鴷则以13%居第四。太平洋鹪鹩和红冠黑啄木鸟则相对较不受欢迎，得票率仅有1%左右。

来源：@星岛日报

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-capped-chickadee-crowned-vancouver-s-bird-for-2015-1.2639285

With a flurry of votes outstripping the number of ballots cast in the last municipal election by a factor of almost five, Vancouverites have chosen a new bird to represent the city for 2015.

More than 700,000 online ballots were entered in the first annual city bird competition, with the black-capped chickadee winning with almost 278,000 votes — or just under 40 per cent of the popular vote.

The 2014 city bird, the northwestern crow, won its throne by acclamation but six nominees were put forward by the city for a public vote for 2015.

The four-week voting period ended at 7 p.m. PT Saturday night, and the winner was announced shortly after.

Anna's Hummingbirds are tiny, but highly showy, Vancouver birds.
The Black-capped Chickadee is a can-do bird who loves to explore and is always the first to find a feeder in the area.
Though brightly coloured, the Varied Thrush is a shy bird whose song is often described as a
In 2010, Pacific Wrens were split off as their own species from the Winter Wren family. The brown Pacific Wren is a shy and solitary bird.
The stately Pileated Woodpecker is the largest of the City Bird candidates, and lives exclusively in mature forests.
The Northern Flicker is at home in both forest and urban environments, eating and living easily in both, and is unafraid to squawk at its human neighbours


The runner-up, the varied thrush, came in with just under 203,000 votes — roughly 29 per cent — and Anna's hummingbird received just under 117,000 votes, or roughly 17 per cent of the votes.

The northern flicker put up a good fight, with over 92,000 votes, but the Pacific wren and pileated woodpecker fell far behind with fewer than 10,000 votes each.

The city says the contest was designed to raise awareness about the diversity of birds in Vancouver and their importance to a healthy ecosystem.

[kenliu66]

恭喜黑顶山雀！
爱鸟族还真庞大啊

[acheng2007]