Rare little tern found nesting on Miaoli beach excites conservationists
Rare little tern found nesting on Miaoli beach excites conservationists
2025-07-22
Conservationists are thrilled, after the finding unhatched eggs from a rare bird on a beach in Miaoli. The species is the little tern, and to protect them, conservationists carefully marked out their locations to keep them safe. While doing so they made an even rarer discovery – the little tern was found to be sharing a nest with the Kentish plover, another water bird with very cute fluffy chicks.
Follow in the footsteps of this conservationist, through a thicket that acts as a windbreak, and enter Tongxiao Beach. You have to be careful, to not step on something important!
Reporter
They were laid on the beach? You might think they’re pebbles.
Tsao Yen-ming
Miaoli Nature Ecology Society
Yes, you might step on it if you are not careful, and if you do, a life will be lost.
Two eggs here, three eggs there. Conservationists note that some of these unhatched eggs were laid by little terns, a protected bird species. The sites were carefully marked and observed by conservationists, with any hatchings recorded.
Tsao Yen-ming
Miaoli Nature Ecology Society
On June 1 it was one egg, and now there are two.
In recent years, conservationists have discovered that the beach in Tongxiao is favored by nature, and many water birds breed and hatch here, including the little tern.
Tsao Yen-ming
Miaoli Nature Ecology Society
In the important breeding grounds on the south side of the Tunghsiao Power Plant, I discovered that the little tern and the Kentish plover were sharing the same nesting site. This phenomenon is something I’ve never seen before.
The chicks hatched on the beach were laid by another small water bird, the Kentish Plover. The two birds are very similar. The biggest difference is that the little tern has webbed feet and the Kentish plover doesn’t. Eggs from these two birds were found in the same nest on the beach. A research team even set up a camera to record them and is calling on the public not to disturb them so the chicks can hatch and flourish.
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通霄沙灘驚見二級保育類"小燕鷗鳥蛋" 研究單位籲:勿打擾
2025-07-22
掩不住的喜悅，苗栗縣通霄的海岸沙灘上，近來出現二級保育鳥類小燕鷗未孵化的蛋，為了呵護小生命，保育人員細心巡邏，以不介入、不打擾的方式製作標誌紀錄，另外也有小型水鳥東方環頸鴴，甚至首次看到這兩種鳥類共用築巢。
跟著保育人員的腳步，穿過防風樹叢，小心翼翼進到通霄海灘，因為可能一個不留神就會踩到它！
[[記者]]
“就生在沙灘上喔?你不仔細看還以為（砂石）”
[[苗栗自然生態學會保育老師 曹燕銘]]
“對，可能不小心就踩到，踩到就是一個生命（沒了）”
這裡兩顆、那裏又發現三顆，保育人員指出，這些未孵化的蛋，有的可是2級保育鳥類小燕鷗！細心製作標記，留意並紀錄孵化。
[[苗栗自然生態學會保育老師 曹燕銘]]
“6月1日，我就跟你說6月1日，那個時候是1粒喔，現在是2粒”
保育人員近幾年發現，通霄這處沙灘得天獨厚，不少水鳥在這裡孕育孵化新生命，其中竟有2級保育鳥類小燕鷗。
[[苗栗自然生態學會保育老師 曹燕銘]]
“在通霄電場南側的重要繁殖場地，竟然有發現到小燕鷗和東方環頸鴴共用一個築巢地，這個現象是我從來過去不曾有過的”
由於海灘上孵化出的雛鳥，還有另一種小型水鳥東方環頸鴴，兩種鳥類很相似，最大不同就是有腳蹼。在海灘上還曾發現兩種鳥類的蛋在同一個巢，研究單位還特別架設一台攝影機記錄，也呼籲大家一起不要打擾，讓牠們都能快樂孵化成長。
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