Blackface Spoonbill Deaths Pose Challenge for Taiwan's Conservationists On December 16, the Council of Agri-culture (COA) announced that 54 black-faced spoonbills had died from botulism. On December 21, it announced that nine more spoonbills had died.
在十二月十六日農委會發佈五十四隻「黑面琵鷺」的死因後，二十一日，陸續又有九隻黑面琵鷺因為感染肉毒桿菌死亡。