The Japanese ornithologist Tetsukichi Kazano, who worked at the Tainan Museum under the Japanese occupation, once wrote to Yoshimaro Yamashina, the Grand Old Man of Japanese ornithology, describing how every year from 1925 to 1938 he had observed 50 or more black-faced spoonbills settled on the beach near Anping harbor.
曾任職台南博物館的日本鳥類學者風野鐵吉，他曾寫一封信給日本的鳥類學泰斗山階芳磨。描述他自己在一九二五年至一九三八年間，每年都觀察到安平港附近有五十餘隻黑面琵鷺在沙灘棲息。