Ghost Month in Taiwan The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, Zhongyuan Festival or Yulan Festival (traditional Chinese: 盂蘭節) is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in Asian countries. According to the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China). In Chinese culture, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Double Ninth Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, during Ghost Festival, the deceased are believed to visit the living. ...... The above description is cited from Wikipedia If you are interested in learning more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Highland red-bellied swallowtail butterfly ( Atrophaneura horishana ) Atrophaneura horishana, which is a unique alpine butterfly species in Taiwan ( endemic ), is distributed in the central mountain range of about 1,500 to 2,500 meters sea level. It is named after the well-known insect scholar Matsumura Matsumura in 1910. A generation . Larvae eat the Taiwan Aristolochicus (Aristolochia shimadai) and Ryukyu Aristolochia (A. liukiuensis). Other same genus butterflies (Atrophaneura) are distributed in the tropics, more generation a year. Unlike the general swallowtail butterfly to pupae in the form of dormant winter, Atrophaneura horishana eggs and larvae evolved a special resistance cold mechanism, to survive below zero degrees Celsius environment. Because of habitat destruction and illegal capture (in 1960 to 1970 butterfly processing industry booming era, Atrophaneura horishana was the hot objects for those professional collections people) caused by the number of plu...
Besra (Accipiter virgatus) Because Besra & Crested Goshawk are looked very similar , therefore many birders feel confused for them , Besra bodysize is smaller & thinner Besra in Taiwan is uncommon resident , compared to the Crested Goshawk, Besra whereabouts are more secret, and less in the metropolitan area. Low altitude trees for the habitat, natural forests and plantations(few case) can adapt. Most of the time to suspend in the forest secret place. When they fly ,they usually not fly high , in the forest short flight change position, Small birds as the master food, accounting for more than 80 percent of the biomass. Other non-master foods include lizards, rats, cicada, bats and so on. They most hunted birds usually are the local birds (Dominant species) , in the Yangmingshan are Taiwan Barbet, and Taipei Wugu area is barn swallow. Some records show when dusk they will hunting low-flying bats. 3 to 4 eggs per nest , eggs rounded. Spawning in May. Ovary about...
Crested Goshawk (Accipiter trivirgatus) Most of the time in the forest, they flight only when the weather is warm, flight time is not long, each flight is usually shorter than 10 minutes. The male often declare in their field and to reveal the obvious white tail cover feathers Low altitude forest is habitat, in natural forest, plantation, orchard or campus can be adapt , even to the coastal forest can also see them . It's the only one raptor can breeding in urban area in Taiw an In Mar to Apr spawning, 2 eggs per nest , about 38 days to hatched , at first by the female feeding chicks, male hunting out side , with the nestling growing up female will join the hunting for bring more food . The chicks leave the nest at about 44 days of age between May and June Hunting a variety of small animals they can catch , including rodents, squirrels, small birds, lizards, frogs . There are many cases into which poultry houses, pigeons, and into balconies caught pet birds. For de...