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Protected Jacanas Wintering in Tainan County
Over 10 protected pheasant- tailed jacanas are presently spending the winter in Taiwan's first jacana preservation area in Tainan County, a Taiwanese media reported Saturday.
A local agricultural expert was cited as saying that the water level in the preservation area will be adjusted to bring in more jacanas and to prevent an invasion of black-winged stilts, a common wading bird that competes with the jacana for food but requires slightly different water levels to thrive.
The county authorities set aside a 15-acre plot of land in 1999 as a base for the jacana preservation area in Kuantien, Tainan County, to ensure that the ecology of the area will not be damaged when the high-speed railway system project begins operations.
A total of 50 to 60 pheasant-tailed jacanas have taken up residence in Tainan's Shinying, Shiaying and Kuantien areas, the expert said.
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