Budai egrets add solar farm to habitat By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter Egrets adapt better than most birds when a solar farm moves into their habitat, experts said, after images of egrets excreting feces on solar panels went viral online. On Tuesday, the Budai Salt Pan Wetlands (布袋五鹽田) posted images on Facebook of birds resting on solar panels erected in a detention basin, while close-ups showed that the panels had been covered with the egrets’ droppings. The basin in Chiayi County’s Budai Township (布袋) was in 2019 transformed from an abandoned salt pan into a solar farm, the Facebook page said in Chinese and English.