白冠长尾雉 White-crowned Long-tailed Phea Syrmaticus reevesii 雉鸡Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus 星头啄木鸟Grey-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus 大斑啄木鸟Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major 灰头绿啄木鸟 Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus 戴胜Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops 普通翠鸟Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis 蓝翡翠Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata 冠鱼狗 Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris 四声杜鹃 Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus 大杜鹃 Eurasian Cuckoo Cuculus canorus 噪鹃Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopacea 普通楼燕 Common Swift Apus apus 白腰雨燕 Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus 东方角鸮 Oriental Scops Owl Otus sunia 斑鸠Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis 珠颈斑鸠 Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis 黑冠鹃隼 Black Baza Aviceda leuphotes 黑耳鸢 Black-eared Kite Milvus lineatus 赤腹鹰 Chinese Sparrowhawk Accipiter soloensis 灰脸Grey-faced Buzzard Eagle Butastur indicus 红隼Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus 白鹭Little Egret Egretta garzetta 牛背鹭 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis 池鹭Chinese Pond-Heron Ardeola bacchus 夜鹭Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax 虎纹伯劳Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus 红尾伯劳 Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus 松鸦Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius 红嘴蓝鹊 Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythrorhyncha 灰喜鹊 Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyana 喜鹊Black-billed Magpie Pica pica 黑枕黄鹂 Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis 暗灰鹃鵙 Black-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina melaschistos 小灰山椒鸟 Swinhoe's Minivet Pericrocotus cantonensis 灰山椒鸟 Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus 黑卷尾 Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus 灰卷尾 Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus 发冠卷尾 Spangled Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus 寿带[鸟] Asian Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi 紫啸鸫 Blue Whistling-Thrush Myophonus caeruleus 乌灰鸫 Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis 乌鸫Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula 鹊鸲Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis 北红尾鸲 Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus 白冠燕尾 White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti 丝光椋鸟 Silky stanling Sturnus sericeus 灰椋鸟 White-cheeked Starling Sturnus cineraceus 八哥Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus 大山雀 Great Tit Parus major
荆棘鸟（序言 英文版）
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in his life,more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth.From the moment it
leaves the nest it searchs for a thorn tree,and does not rest until it has found one.Then,singing among the savage branches,it impales itself upon the
largest ,sharpest spine.And,dying,it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale.One superlative song,existence the price.But the
whole world stills to listen,and God in His Heaven smiles.For the best is only bought at the lost of great pain....Or so says the legend.
The bird with the thorn in its breast ,it follows an immutable law;it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,and die singing.At the very
instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come;it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another
note.But we,when we put the thorns in our breasts,we know.We understand.And still we do it.Still we do it.
有一个传说，说的是有那么一只鸟儿，它一生只唱一次，那歌声比世上所有一切生灵的歌声都更加优美动听。从离开巢窝的那一刻起，它就在寻找着荆棘树，直到如愿以偿，才歇息下来。然后，它把自己的身体扎进最长、最尖的棘刺上，在那荒蛮的枝条之间放开了歌喉。在奄奄一息的时刻，它超脱了自身的痛苦，而好歌声竟然使云雀和夜莺都黯然失色。这是一曲无比美好的歌，曲终而命竭。然而，整个世界都在静静地谛听着，上帝也在苍穹中微笑。因为最美好的东西只能用深痛巨创来换取……反正那个传说是这么讲的。
Exam, McCullough, the thorn birds is a world famous saga novel, with the heroine meggie and father Ralph love entanglement as the main line, describes the story of a three generations in Cleveland. Ralph addicted to the power of the church, but fell in love with the beautiful young girl meggie cleary's house. For the sake of his pursuit of "god", he abandoned the worldly love, however and extreme contradictions and inner pain. As the center, the cleary family members of more than ten kinds of joys and sorrows.there are also displayed.考琳·麦卡洛的《荆棘鸟》是一部世界著名的家世小说，以女主人公梅吉和神父拉尔夫的爱情纠葛为主线，描写了克利里一家三代的故事。拉尔夫一心向往教会的权力，却爱上了克利里家的美丽少女梅吉。为了他追求的“上帝”，他抛弃了世俗的爱情，然而内心又极度矛盾和痛苦。以此为中心，克利里家族十余名成员的悲欢离合也得以展现。
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
不知道你要的是不是这个的最後一句。
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
第一句没找到。
第二句：De Tocqueville defines individualism as “a calm and considered feeling which disposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his fellows and withdraw into the circle of family and friends; with this little society formed to his taste, he gladly leaves the greater society to look after itself”.
我非常喜欢这部作品，也写过关于他的评论，我觉得 爱和代价 这个题目比较好。 The cost of love
http://www.reconnections.net/thorn_birds.htm 这个网址的 文字是英文原版书 扉页 上的文字， 也说明了主题。
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Thorn_Birds_-_Colleen_McCullogh-83807-1.html 一个赏析。
作者的简介 http://www.answers.com/topic/colleen-mccullough
希望对你有帮助:)
很久以前，有一只鸟一生只歌唱一次。从她离开巢穴的那刻起，她就在寻找来自荆棘树上最长的叶子，从不停息直到她找到一片。然后她开始歌唱，比地球上其他任何生物都唱的好听。但是在这摄人心魄的动听歌声回响之时，她却在最长，最锋利的荆棘上愈发苍白了。在她将死的一刻，她用自己经历的巨大痛苦唱响了超越云雀和夜莺的歌声。荆棘鸟儿用她的一生来寻找这首歌，整个世界都被吸引住在倾听！她最美好的一面仅仅是以巨大的痛苦为代价来表现的。为荆棘所驱动，对死亡毫无畏惧。但是当我们将荆棘按在胸口上的时候，我们知道……我们理解……并且仍然……我们选择荆棘的痛苦
雨露，是万物生长的灵丹妙药，它能让万物欣欣向荣，给人带来希望和欢乐。起名，是给孩子取名最重要的一步，因为名字，在某种程度上就是一种文化。一个好的名字，可以让孩子从小拥有一个好的起点。那么，旸字取名呢，有着什么样的寓意及含义？
1、旸是五行金之字，五行属水，寓意孩子聪明机智，有大智慧，富有爱心。
根据五行属性来取名，金能克水，就像是金被水淹没了，所以会出现水变少，阳气不充足的情况。而旸字五行属水，表示有希望的样子，寓意孩子聪明机智，有大智慧，富有爱心，有爱心之义，对人非常友好，人缘非常好。由于在起名时需要注意五行八字，所以名字要避开太多不利因素。例如孩子取名为旸这个名字时，可选择五行属金且与水相冲或水火相济或金水相济等字面寓意相搭。
2、旸字是木之金之字，五行属木，为金之态，寓意孩子金木水火土五行协调，和谐发展。
雨露的滋润，日出而作，日落而息，都让人感到无比满足。旸，字音shèng,寓意着孩子有一颗包容和感恩之心。这与“日出而作、日落而息”有异曲同工之妙……旸给人带来欢乐、吉祥的同时，也寓意着孩子金木水火土协调发展……
3、旸是一种很有灵性的字，可形容孩子生机勃勃，乐观向上。
【旸】有光明、温暖、明朗的意思，可用作名字。【阳凯是太阳之意。【阳阳阳】阳代表明亮，阳代表光明及温暖。用阳代表光明的事物，表示孩子生机勃勃，乐观向上。【阳欣可表示欣欣向荣之意。【阳和】可表示温暖的意思。
4、旸字取名，寓意孩子乐观向上，对生活充满希望。
旸字寓意孩子乐观向上，对生活充满希望，乐观积极的生活态度，有助于提高孩子的自信心。另外旸字取名还有着积极向上、乐观开朗、吉祥幸福、生活美满、幸福美满等美好祝愿，其寓意吉祥。而且旸在中国汉字里是非常多见的一个字，我们可以将这个字用在名字中来表达。旸字取名代表着孩子未来很美好而充满希望。如果将其用于起名中，则代表着孩子未来会有很多希望。同时也象征着孩子将来会有所成就。
5、旸作为名字有吉祥富贵之意。
旸这个名字，在很早的时候就被赋予了吉祥富贵的寓意，因为它在名字中的意思很多。所以有很高的吉祥富贵之意。这个名字将孩子命名为【旸】具有美好的寓意。