Huang Ying-kui, an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, has visited all the Bunun tribal villages in the course of his research. In his experience, "owl stories are very widespread."
中研院民族所副研究員黃應貴曾為研究而走訪布農族各部落，他的田野經驗是「貓頭鷹的故事相當普遍」。