The habitat of blackfaced spoonbill

According to周大慶(2000)

Black-faced spoonbills is the migatory bird and mainly appeared along the coast of southeast part of continent in the past. Nowadays, the reason why the number of black-faced spoonbills decrease rapidly because the wetland disappeared or dried up through synthesize the statistics and data from all the location that black-faced spoonbills spent their winter time. The world has only 600 black-faced spoonbills left in 1999.

Black-faced spoonbill's breeding locations are in North and South Korea, some small islands in the sea area of Niao Ning. Moreover, there are three main locations for black-faced spoonbills to spend their winter time, they are Tsangwen River Chigu lagoon, Mai Po and Vietnam. Also, in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hainan Island, people can see the black-faced spoonbills. Some locations are not discovered yet.

The Chigu area has great pressure due to industrial pollution, but the number of black-faced spoonbills has continuously increases (about 400). This shows the importance of Tsangwen River habitat. So, the industrial pollution should be solved as soon as possible.[1]



The habitat of black-faced spoonbill in Taiwan

Mud and sand from Tsangwen River deposit at the exit of Tsang Web River. Due to the strong power from the river flow in the north, most of the sand deposit there and form a large area for them to live. To prevent the area being damaged by sea water, in 1987 the Tai Nan Government built up a Chigu sea wall at the south of the area and two gates from today's view in Tsangwen River. This area's tidal range becomes flat due to the control of water by the gate. There are many fish, shrimp and other marine living things, so it is a perfect place for black-faced spoonbills to rest and hunting food and provide a save and convenient home for them. According the research, we can know that after building the sea wall, the number of black-faced spoonbill increases from 50 at the beginning of 1980 to 443 in year 1999. [1]