From the 1960s to the 1980s, over 30 bird species regularly bred on uninhabited islands of the Matsu Archipelago, and at their peak their breeding populations numbered several tens of thousands.
民國五○到七○年代，馬祖地區每年有三十幾種鳥類在附近無人島上繁衍，最多時曾高達數萬隻。