Best-selling novelist Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club” fame combines entries from her nature journal with astonishing illustrations thanks to lessons in bird illustration in “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” to share a birdwatching obsession that dates back to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
This combination of cover images shows"The Backyard Bird Chronicles" by Amy Tan, left, and"The Birds that Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness" by Kenn Kaufman. when people stuck at home for months looked out their windows for entertainment and immersed themselves into the natural world, many of them for the first time.of “The Joy Luck Club” fame is among about 45 million Americans the U.S.
Kaufman, an avid birder since he was a boy, has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including his own Kaufman Field Guides.But amid the rivalries, fraud and plagiarism,"The Birds in America,” Audubon's seminal collection of 435 life-size prints, missed many winged creatures that were not discovered for years, including some common songbirds, hawks and sandpipers.
“I’ve been spending more hours a day staring at birds than writing," she notes at one point."How can I not? Just outside my office, four fledgling scrub jays are learning survival skills.” Like a loving mother, Tan watches in delight as fledglings learn how to get get food from her patio cage feeders, She worries whether they'll be affected by smoke from fires in California's north.
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