The joy of bird watching in Taipei>Daan Forest Park

There are many bird watching spots in the Taipei Metropolitan Area. We will choose three of the largest bird spots in Taipei to actually walk through and introduce them: Daan Forest Park       Daan Forest Park is a specially built ecological pool facility and set with a bird watching platform. The Wild Bird Society of Taipei set up a commentary station here, which can guide the visitors’ tour by comparing with the explanatory diagrams, the visitors can observe from a telescope to enjoy bird ecology. Here is also the filming location of “Spotted-necked dove in my house”, and readers of interests can click on the link.       The guide lead us start from the park walkway, and suddenly everyone stopped. It turned out that there was a Formosan blue magpie on the distant building, and it looked very beautiful from the telescope. We were really curious how the guide found the bird from so far away, the guide told us that the lines of the building itself were very regular. If we see irregularities, black spots, or moving shadows from the distance, we can pick up the telescope. This is how we observe this Formosan blue magpie. Later, after several bird watching, we learned that the bird that everyone sees for the first time could be called the bird of life. This bird may be the key bird that takes us into the world of flying feathers.       Then we saw Taiwan barbet, turtle doves, light-vented bulbul, and black-crowned night heron. We were all amazed. We also saw the Tiger bittern eating earthworms, and everyone took photographic equipment to snap this scene, everyone was exclaimed especially at the moment when the Tiger bittern pulling the earthworm. At present, there were more than 10 species of birds nesting in the park, including little egret, common moorhen, white-breasted waterhen, black bulbul, night heron, Tiger bittern, warbling white-eyes, Asian koel, Taiwan barbet, yellow-necked black egret, European blackbird, Japanese waxwing, etc. Filmed by  Bird Conservator And we also saw three crested goshawks in conservation. One of them flew down from the tree and caught a shrike. The picture was really shocking, but it was too fast to capture the picture. And the other one caught a mouse and ate on a tree. These were the real sights seen in the Metropolitan Park. The red-tailed shrike flew all the way across the sea and starved, and immediately became the food of the crested goshawk. It was really astounding; and the appearance of the crested goshawk, which is the highest predator raptor of the food chain, represented the formation of a complete food chain. Filmed by  Bird Conservator       The best bird watching season is from March to June. The birds cannot stand the heat, so the bird watching time in summer is from 6:00 to 8:00 am, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm, and from 7:00 to 12:00 am and 2:00 to 4:00 am in spring, autumn and winter. After explained by Mr. Shi-Yao Chen, we realized that we shall get up early for bird watching, because early birds get worms to eat! We stopped at the ecological pool and began to count the bird species we saw today, Mr. Shi-Yao Chen held a record sheet. Mr. Shi-Yao Chen told us that bird records can help us to know the traces and quantity of birds, and it was helpful for us to monitor environmental changes. Every routine activity will have records. Grey-spotted cormorants, gray starlings, and 25 bird species are recorded today. These records will be uploaded to e-bird, which will be stored in this database, which can be scientifically analyzed to provide important reference for conservation work in the future.