The autumn sun in Tainan is still scorching, without being aware that winter has fallen in the North. Black-faced spoonbills, the North residents, have long since set off for the South, settling in the wetlands large and small in Taijian National Park. The Taijian Commentary Shuttle Bus has also departed. New friends met on their virgin trip on the bus, and old faces seen last year met again.
“The Black-faced Spoonbill Watching Pavilion seems a little different this year.” If so, where? “Watching the black-faced spoonbills this year...seems to be clearer.”
It is, indeed. This Black-faced Spoonbill Commentary Shuttle Bus has served hundreds of tourists since this October. Bird-lovers visiting the birdwatching pavilion for the first time always resisted the impulse to shout and happily took pictures of the black-faced spoonbills instead to record their witnessing; bird-lovers who had been here before said they were lucky because their experience suggests that meeting black-faced spoonbills is not easy, let along seeing so many of them at once paddling their beaks over the water and fluttering their wings. Why are there so many black-faced spoonbills this year? And why did taking pictures become so much easier?
Taijian National Park Administration conducted a survey and assessment of the main habitat of the black-faced spoonbills in 2020 and found that substrate sediment affects water flow and water quality. As such, after inviting experts and several government agencies for a discussion, Taijian National Park Administration managed to stir the substrate sediment to increase water flow and reduce sediment; to artificially control the range of the avicennia marina vierh. cluster, and to slow the expansion of the mangrove forest by thinning them at a fixed place and periodically inhibiting them, so that migratory birds visiting Taijian have more space for living and foraging.
In 2021, as the autumn wind started up, the black-faced spoonbills arriving the earliest seemed to have noticed the difference. The vitality they have demonstrated can be fully observed by tourists watching through a pair of binoculars from the birdwatching pavilion.
Look at these photos! You don't need expensive cameras or high-magnification lenses. You can take the photos simply by using the monoculars provided at the birdwatching pavilion by Taijian Administration. Do you have any questions about black-faced spoonbills or other winter migrants? There are also experienced volunteers on site to provide professional commentary. If unfamiliar roads concern you, or if you want to know more about the ecology of black-faced spoonbills, you are welcome to take the Taijian National Park Commentary Shuttle Bus to visit the Bird Watching Pavilion, the Black-faced Spoonbill Exhibition Hall of the Endemic Species Research Institute, and the Taijian National Park Visitor Center. Hopefully this Black-faced Spoonbill Commentary Shuttle Bus guides you bird-lovers, new and old alike, to the world of beautiful wing quills.