Mr. Xie Wen-you has been engaged in ecological photography for many years and has previously staged a number of bird photography exhibitions in Canshan National Scenic area, National Museum of Natural Sciences and in Zhanghua. His photographs are deep in artistic conception, rich in feeling and full of life.

The “Beauty of Taiwan’s Birds—Xie Wen-you Photography Exhibition” includes photographs of birds endemic to Taiwan: Formosan yellow tit, Formosan blue magpie, black-browed barbet (Megalaima oorti), swinhoe's pheasant (Lophura swinhoii) and Taiwan firecrest (Regulus goodfellowi). It also includes mountain birds: black-shouldered kite (Elanus caeruleus), black-naped blue monarch (Hypothymis azurea), collared scops owl. (Otus bakkamoena), and blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) and water birds: black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus), mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), great frigate bird (Fregata minor), pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus). Each photograph comes has an explanatory text allowing the viewer to learn about the photograph’s artistic conception and the bird’s habits.

The park is expansive and has a variety of trees and plants that attract many kinds of birds. More than 50 species of bird in 18 families have been recorded in the park. This exhibition also features the Caspian plover, gold-capped cisticola and other birds photographed in the park. The photographer captures the birds in all their glory. The exhibition will be open from July 3 to August 31.For more information call 886-4-24612483.

Translated by：Kevin Lax
Source：CPAMI