National Parks of Taiwan

Kinmen National Park hired the research team of Professor Lucia Liu and Professor Hsu Yu-cheng from the Raptor Research Group of Taiwan in attaching GPS-GSM transmitters on three raptors on November 2015 at Dongshawei of Kinmen before letting them fly away.

Two raptors have successively returned to Kinmen on November 2016 with migration data. According to satellite information, the three buteos started to return north successively on April 2016 after their release, flying along Chinese provinces such as Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and arrived at Russia (Amur Oblast and Sakha Republic).

After spending the summer there for 2 to 4 months, they have successively started their journey southward starting from September. Their total mileage was between 8000 KM to 11000 KM and finally arrived at Kinmen. With this completely recorded migration data, this is the first time in Taiwan that researchers can solve the mystery on the migration of buteos.