Although no final conclusions have yet been reached, "one thing that is common to each of the highways is that both sides of the road have become meccas for nesting bush robins." So says Shu-Te University student Chou Ming-hung, who over the last two years has spent much time plodding the Southern and New Central Cross-Island Highways to observe the birds.
雖然目前尚未得出最後結論，「但情況一樣的是，公路兩旁都成了栗背林鴝築巢的大本營，」過去兩年在南橫、新中橫路上觀察鳥兒的樹德大學學生周明宏說。