After a journey through southern Taiwan in 1858, British adventurer Robert Swinhoe wrote of seeing many black-naped oriole in the bamboo forests at Fangliao, along with many black bulbul nesting on the curved bamboo branches.
在竹林中有很多黃鶯，也有烏鶖築巢在彎曲的竹枝上… …」一八五八年英國探險家史溫侯所寫的南台灣旅行見聞可以證明。