In support of Year of the Bird, National Geographic is publishing several field guides and photography books for adults and children. National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... illustrations with Peterson’s pragmatic field-guide images. Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), Costa ...

rather they are the backdrop to an even more illuminating guide: to the habits and habitats, instincts and ideals, of the birds—nested and not—of this lovingly evoked East African field.