Black-faced spoonbills spotted hunting beside national greenway in central Tainan
Black-faced spoonbills spotted hunting beside national greenway in central Tainan
2022-11-22
Biologists are celebrating the spread of black-faced spoonbills in the wetlands of Tainan. A new national greenway in the Haiwei Road area of central Tainan City is attracting spoonbills. Conservationists say the fish farms on both sides of the greenway draw the birds. Now, for the first time, a flock of about 30 spoonbills has been recorded hunting for food in the area, in a sign of growing ecological health for the city.
More than 30 black-faced spoonbills are hunting on the wetlands. A scene like this once appeared only at nearby Qigu wetlands. But now these images have been caught in Tainan city’s central Annan District, by Taijiang river basin volunteer Hu Chin-wei. Here at the fish farm by Haiwei Road, there’s an abundance of wildlife. You can see egrets and ducks – and now, even black-faced spoonbills. Flocks of spoonbills were once confined to the Qigu area; now, they’re also gracing the Mountains to Sea National Greenway.
Miss. Yeh
Member of public
I’m so happy that animals, plants and humans can co-exist in the city. It’s rare to be able to see so much wildlife.
Voice of Wu Mao-cheng
Tainan Community University
Black-faced spoonbills, ducks and lots of waterfowl all fly over here and you can see all of them.
This area is a historic site, one of the first centers of urbanisation at the Taijiang Wetlands. Over 200 years, the geography here has gone through big changes. Now fishponds on both sides of the greenway are potential habitats for the black-faced spoonbill. The bird comes to Taiwan to overwinter. In recent years, its numbers have grown. A survey from Taijiang National Park, carried out in November, found 4,119 spoonbills across greater Tainan, Chiayi and Kaohsiung – a new record.
Chiu Jen-wu
Tainan Eco Protection Society
This time we found almost 2,000 spoonbills in the Tainan area. On the Chiayi coast we found 1,847.
That’s almost twice as many birds as they found last year. The new greenway at Haiwei Road has preserved the fishpond and wetlands on both sides, giving spoonbills ample space to make their homes, and allowing the public to get closer to the birds. Conservation groups are optimistic, and local people have a greater connection to nature on their doorstep.
市區就能看到黑面琶鷺 山海圳國家綠道添亮點
2022-11-22
台南安南區海尾路，自從2015年開闢後，綠道兩側魚塭生態豐富，近幾年開始被發現，有黑面琵鷺的蹤跡。尤其今年第一批飛到海尾魚塭的黑面琶鷺，也被台江流域的志工捕捉到身影，約有30幾隻，是近年來最多。如今在市區就可以看到黑琵，讓民眾很興奮，也為這片山海圳國家綠道，增添亮點。
安南區海尾路
超過30隻的黑面琶鷺，悠閒的在濕地裡覓食，這樣的畫面不再只是出現在台南七股，現在在市區的安南區，也被台江流域志工胡晉偉，難得的捕捉(catch)到畫面。這是台南安南區海尾路旁的魚塭地，因為生態豐富，不只可看到白鷺鷥、雁鴨，最近也被捕捉到黑面琶鷺的畫面，過去成群的黑琵，大多只在七股出現，現在安南區市區就看得到，也讓這條山海圳國家綠道，更添新亮點。
[[民眾葉小姐]]
“很開心就是動物跟植物跟人是共生共存的，在都市裡面，你難得可以看到這麼多的生態”
[[聲源：台南社大台江分校執行長吳茂成]]
“黑面琵鷺、雁鴨，還有很多水鳥都會飛到這邊來，都可以看見”
其實這個地方自古以來，就是台江內海拓墾的歷史場域，也見證台江建庄2百年的歷史地理變遷，兩側魚塭更是珍貴的黑面琶鷺棲息地。近年來，來到台灣度冬的黑琵數量，逐年增加，台江國家公園11月份黑面琵鷺普查，大台南、嘉義、高雄三地，總共發現有4119隻，再創歷年新高。
[[台南市生態保育學會理事長 邱仁武]]
“這一次在台南地區逼近了將近2000隻(黑面琵鷺)，在嘉義沿海那邊有1847隻”
今年黑琵的普查數量，比去年同期增加近一倍。而海尾路的開闢，保留了兩側的魚塭濕地，讓黑琵可以進駐，也讓民眾更容易接觸到黑琵，不只保育團體感到欣慰，民眾在市區裡能看到黑面琵鷺，也成為最貼近民眾的生態教育場域。
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