In 2015, the Kinmen National Park commissioned Professor Hsiao-wei Yuan of the Department of School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, to conduct a two-year investigation of the migration and reproduction of the summer bird blue-tailed bee eater. In the investigation last year, Yuan and her team put different types of bird trackers on 29 bird blue-tailed bee eaters to track their migration points and the environmental resources of these points to analyze the migration pattern and winter locations of the bird blue-tailed bee eater. During June to July this year, the mating season of the bird, research assistant Ying-lan Chen of the team successfully captured the tracker signal of one blue-tailed bee eater. After the bird blue-tailed bee eater left Kimen after the mating season last year, they flew to south of Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia to pass the winter.

The research team hopes to depict the bird’s migration route and geographical information on its winter resort in greater detail by decipher the data collected by other trackers and reinforce cooperation with relevant units of the bird’s winter resort and along its migration route in order to protect the blue-tailed bee eater. In addition to the reproduction site, we hope to conduct fuller scale geography-based research and conservation of the blue-tailed bee eater.