Hung Tien-chun notes that bird divination is a special feature of cultures from the Austronesian linguistic family. Of Taiwan's nine aboriginal peoples, all, except for the Yami of Orchid Island, and even including the Pingpu, had the custom of bird divination.
洪田濬指出，對於原住民族，鳥占是包括夏威夷群島、東南亞在內南島文化圈中的文化特色，台灣九大原住民族中，除了蘭嶼島上的雅美族，包括平埔族在內，都有鳥占的習俗。