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Guanyinshan Visitor Center, its red-tiled roofs and white-walled façade embraced by verdant mountains, showcases Guanyinshan’s tourism resources, hiking-trail system, prehistoric human activities, and nearby excavated sites and Neolithic pottery. On the second floor, the Guanyinshan Raptor Exhibition Hall—northern Taiwan’s first education-oriented raptor museum—opened on 26 September 2020 after four years of planning and construction. Through panels, life-like models, specimens and multimedia, it introduces the “Guanyin Eagles,” more than 30 species of raptors found over Guanyinshan, and spotlights Taiwan’s raptors and the “Guanyin Four” (Crested Serpent-Eagle, Crested Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, and Chinese Sparrowhawk). Six themed zones use topographic and ecological dioramas, interactive media and VR to let visitors experience, through all five senses, the unique raptor ecology of Guanyinshan. Each April–May, flocks of Grey-faced Buzzards and Chinese Sparrowhawks stream north over the ridge; the “Guanyin • Watching Eagles” guided program offers an in-depth look at the habits of these and other raptors.