Bird species that I have seen or heard from the window of my sixth-floor apartment on Chung-shan North Road section 7.

1. Little Egret Egretta eulophotes
2. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
3. Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
4. Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracica *
5. Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
6. Red Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
7. Rock Dove (feral pigeon) Columba livia
8. Collared Scops Owl Otus bakkamoena occasionally heard (and sometimes seen) during all-nighters
9. Muller's Barbet Megalaima oorti *
10. House Swift Apus affinis
11. Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
12. White/Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba leucopsis
13. Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
14. Chinese Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
15. Black Bulbul Hypsipetes madagascariensis
16. Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus *
17. Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius philippensis
18. Formosan Whistling Thrush Myiophoneus insularis screeches outside every morning before dawn
19. Lesser/Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis *
20. Hwamei/Melodious Laughing Thrush Garrulax canorus * (caged/escapee?)
21. Red-tailed Laughing Thrush Garrulax milnei an escapee, but what a surprise!
22. Red-headed Tree Babbler Stachyris ruficeps *
23. Black-naped Blue Monarch Hypothymis azurea *
24. Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonica simplex
25. Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
26. Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
27. Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
28. White-vented Myna Acridotheres javanicus
29. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
30. Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocerus
31. Gray Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
32. Red Lory Eos bornea

1. Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus
2. Rufous Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
3. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
4. Brown/Red-bellied Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
5. Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
6. Goffin's Cockatoo Cacatua goffini

Compiled as of May 21, 1999