Liao Sheng-fu, a school teacher who often takes groups of pupils bird watching, says that every morning at dawn in Taitung, the first birds you can hear are not the sparrows but the Wu-T'ou Weng.
常帶隊賞鳥的台東豐里國小教師廖聖福也表示，在台東，每天清晨聽到的第一聲鳥叫不是麻雀，就是烏頭翁。