"For several years after I began painting birds, I ran into many difficulties collecting data because I didn't have the necessary experience," says Yang. "For example, I'd never seen a Formosan hill partridge in the wild. And while I'd caught a couple of quick glimpses of black eagles on riverbanks in the Fu-shan Botanical Garden, I'd never gotten a photograph close up."
「開始畫鳥的好幾年裡，因為經驗不足，在蒐集資料時遭遇許多困難，例如深山竹雞，我在野外從來沒看過；林鵰則除了在福山植物園溪畔有過幾次驚鴻一瞥的巧遇外，都無法拍到近距離的畫面。」