It's a pleasure to sit with Amy Tan as she sketches and watches her way to an obsession about the birds in her Marin County backyard.

Amy Tan has joined the millions of American “birders,” and shares her journey and discoveries in her latest book.

It's a pleasure to sit with Amy Tan as she sketches and watches her way to an obsession about the birds in her Marin County backyard.

Sitting quietly in her garden one morning in 2017, the American author Amy Tan had an up-close encounter with an Anna’s ...

Like any backyard bird-watcher, Tan is engaged in an ongoing battle with squirrels. She buys some supposedly squirrel-proof feeders and builds her own; the squirrels laugh, with their cheeks full.

Yet Tan never intended for these private musings, quotidian observations and representational drawings of her backyard birds to become a book — that was the idea of her longtime editor Dan Halpern.

As time passes, Tan becomes intentionally curious in nature, fascinated as a pair of Great Horned Owls take up residence in her backyard, depleting the rat population as they regurgitate pellets ...

She’s a novelist turned naturalist. New York Times best-selling author Amy Tan has turned her intense gaze to the world of birds and shared her private drawings and musings in a new book ...

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. (Knopf ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” by Amy Tan. (Knopf via AP) By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Posted: Apr 30, 2024 / 03:15 PM CDT Updated: Apr 30, 2024 / ...