Unlike Taiwan's endemic mikado pheasant and Swinhoe's pheasant, whose populations are dangerously small, the lively bush robins can be quickly spotted by experienced birdwatchers, and many amateur ornithologists have had the experience of watching them on mountain roads.
比起族群面臨威脅的帝雉、藍腹鷳等特有鳥類，賞鳥高手上山總能很快覓見栗背林鴝活潑的身影，長期以來，鳥友更是人人都有「在公路上觀賞栗背林鴝」的經驗。