Historical records show that the black-faced spoonbill appeared on the southeast coast of China from time to time, but in a recent large-scale survey of wetlands in the mainland, the largest single group in which they appeared numbered only 15.
過去史料記載，大陸東南沿海不時可見黑面琵鷺，但大陸近來進行大規模的濕地調查，它們出現最多的一次，只有十五隻。