Guanyin Mountain Visitor Center Introduction
The Guanyin Mountain Tourism Service Center features a red-tiled, white-walled building set amidst lush green mountains. It showcases tourism resources, hiking trail systems related to Guanyin Mountain, as well as prehistoric human activities and artifacts unearthed in the area, including prehistoric pottery. Located on the second floor is the Guanyin Mountain Raptor Exhibition Hall, the first education-themed exhibition hall dedicated to raptors in Northern Taiwan. After 4 years of planning and construction, it officially opened on September 26, 2020. The exhibition hall displays the Guanyin Eagles Society using images, ecological simulation models, specimens, and multimedia facilities, showcasing up to 30 species of raptors, introducing the various raptor species in Taiwan and the "Four Treasures of Guanyin" (the Philippine Eagle, the Crested Goshawk, the Eastern Buzzard, and the Red-shouldered Hawk). There are six main thematic areas in the hall that allow visitors to understand the unique aspects of Guanyin Mountain's raptors and natural ecology through terrain and raptor ecological models, interactive multimedia, and VR facilities, engaging the five senses. From April to May each year, flocks of Red-shouldered Hawks and Eastern Buzzards can be seen migrating north in the Guanyin Mountain area, and there are guided activities such as "Guanyin? Eagle Watching," which provide in-depth insight into the behavior of eagles and raptors.
