Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper needs for feeding and nesting when it returns in May after wintering in the Argentine Pampas, the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices.
the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in
the bird itself is vanishing in the northeastern United States as a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in
that the birds themselves are vanishing in the northeastern United States is due to residential and industrial development and changes to
in the northeastern United States, sandpipers’ vanishing is due to residential and industrial development and to changes in
in the northeastern United States, the sandpipers’ vanishing, a result of residential and industrial development and changing
我个人的看法,主句的意思是sandpipers vanishing is a result of ...
从句意看,作者的意思是说像sandpipers赖以为生的草原和牧场由于residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices 而消失一样,sandpipers,这个鸟本身也是由于上述原因消失的,所以说B: the birds itself...更佳,因为like表示的是类比,所类比的两个对象应该有可比性,这里面是用the grassy fields and old pastures 和 sandpipers比。