Business for males is very good, whereas females, with neither songs nor buyers, are set free. Today you can see them, far from their mainland homeland, in such places as the Taipei Botanical Garden. They have also begun to seek mates in the wild. Crossbreeding with the Taiwanese hwa-mei, they have created a new species.
雄畫眉買賣熱絡，不會鳴唱的雌鳥因缺乏市場而被放生，如今連植物園都可以見到「唐山過台灣」的大陸畫眉，它們更在野外求偶，與台灣畫眉配對、繁衍，產生一支新鳥族。