But, judging from the situation of the black-faced spoonbill in various other countries, they do not live in wooded areas, and anyway "they need a broader undisturbed area than other Ibises, which is why they were attracted to the Chiku sandbank in the first place," says Ong Yi-tsung, a lecturer at Kun-shan Industrial College in Tainan County.
但以黑面琵鷺目前在各國棲息的情況看來，它們並不居住樹林中，而且「它們需要的警戒區比其他鷺科鳥遼闊，這正是七股沙洲吸引它們的原因」，台南縣昆山工專共同科講師翁義聰說。