In the latest edition of BI's Threatened Birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book, published in June 2001, the black-faced spoonbill is downlisted from the most highly threatened category, "critically endangered," to the second category, "endangered." This is thanks to successful conservation efforts that have allowed the population of southern Taiwan's most famous migratory bird to recover.
六月，國際鳥盟最新發佈的「亞洲鳥類紅皮書」中，南台灣知名候鳥黑面琵鷺由於保育有成，數量增加，已從極度危急的第一級被降為第二級。