In addition, because the migratons of the black-faced spoonbill cross national boundaries in East Asia, Taiwan gradually came to be included in cooperative international conservation plans. In 1998 and 1999, for example, Taiwan worked with Japan on satellite tracking and attached satellite transmitters on the birds to track them to their breeding grounds on a small uninhabited island in the Korean demilitarized zone, thus solving a long-standing mystery.
此外，由於黑琵遷移活動跨越東亞各國，台灣隨後也加入國際的保育合作計畫，例如 1998、1999 年二度與日本合作衛星追蹤，把衛星發報器裝上鳥背，追蹤到它們的繁殖地是在南、北韓交界非軍事區的無人小島，解開長久之謎。