Tainan court rejects noisy birds compensation suitBy Wang Chun-chung and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Tainan District Court has ruled against a woman who sought NT$100,000 in compensation for her insomnia and mental distress allegedly caused by her neighbor’s pet birds. The woman, surnamed Chen (陳), said that her neighbor, surnamed Tsai (蔡), has kept birds on a second-floor balcony since September last year. The court ruled that Chen failed to prove that her decibel meter or her recording methods met the professional standards required by environmental protection authorities. As the recordings could not definitively prove the noise exceeded levels tolerable to the average person, the court ruled in favor of Tsai. Measurements should be taken at the heights specified in Article 3 of the Noise Control Standards (噪音管制標準) and should account for background noise to ensure the evidence is not deemed invalid by a court, he said.

Source: Taipei Times April 06, 2026 17:16 UTC