DO YOU KNOW BLUE MAGPIE? 

Taiwanese national bird! Very special one because it is endemic kind of magpie and lives just in Taiwan and its mountains!

Taiwan Blue magpies choose for living very clean environment. That is a strong proof of the fact that Toucheng Leisure Farm is situated in pure nature where many Blue magpie´s families have its homes! J 

Guests can see a family of Blue Magpies having their breakfast at Toucheng Farm's open ground near our service centre everyday. Please see the link below to see how beautiful they are and they are truly part of TC farm family members. http://youtu.be/peeqjMHP0nc 

 

Blue Magpie´s family in Toucheng Leisure Farm

Blue Magpie is distinctive for its long colourful tail, it has yellow eyes, red bill and legs, black head and rest of its body has saturated blue colour with white marks! They can eat everything, from vegetable, fruit, meat, insect to seeds, but their most favourite food is papaya! In Toucheng Leisure Farm you can find many papaya trees in different places- planted by our grandmother. She spent a lot of money to buy all that papaya trees for Blue Magpies! Those papaya trees have no other usage, we don´t eat them, we plant them just for a simple purpose- to make our Blue Magpies happy! 

Papaya tree with its fruits

We live in harmony with these birds and we try to provide them the environment where they can live and be satisfied. Our reward is beautiful sight! Blue Magpies let us and our visitors watch their daily life from very short distance! They also let us observe their eggs and new members of their families (March-April), but during this period of time, we have to be careful! Blue Magpies are very good parents and protect their nests well. If they feel endangered, they become to be agressive! Due to this reason we should be respectful and give them serenity.

Mum feeds its new born Blue Magpies

Blue Magpies are not affraid of us or our visitors because we treat them nicely, we don´t catch them, we give them beautiful space for life! This is Toucheng Leisure Farm! J