A couple Malaysian Night Heron [Gorsachius melanolophus (黑冠麻鷺)] chicks waiting for their parents to bring home a meal.
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Daily Photo – Time to Take out the Trash
A Taiwan Barbet [Megalaima nuchalis (五色鳥)] tidying up the nest.
New This Week
There are a few new arrivals on the Taiwan’s Butterflies page after being eaten alive by mosquitoes today:
- Graphium doson postianus
- Graphium cloanthus kuge
- Timelaea albescens formosana
- Euploea mulciber barsine
- Hypolimnas misippus
- Symbrenthia lilaea formosanus
- Junonia lemonias aenaria
- Catopsilia pyranthe
- Lampides boeticus
- Spindasis kuyanianus
Our current total now stands at 31 species!
Brown Hawk-Owls
Earlier this week I was introduced to a tree on the grounds of a nearby elementary school where 4 Brown Hawk-Owls [褐鷹鴞, Ninox scutulata] had made their home. It was early in the morning and Cathy’s mother had showed me where they were. She goes there frequently with a group to practice Tai Chi.
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Taoyuan Valley Hike: Creatures of Flight
Athyma selenophora laela [單帶蛺蝶]
Yesterday’s hike started much the same way the Caoling Historic Trail hike ended. I left Taipei by train for Yilan County’s Dali [大里]. I started by making my way from the Dali Tian-Gong Temple [大里天公廟] to the area on the Caoling Trail near the Tiger inscription where visitors have the option of turning south along the Taoyuan Valley [桃源谷].
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