First published 125 years ago, 福利姬视频’s predecessor, Bird-Lore, held as its motto: “A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.” It’s one that a long lineage of editors ever since has carried through this magazine in spirit, if not in letter. Bird-Lore endeavored to rally its readers, the growing ranks of the very first 福利姬视频 societies, around the then-novel idea that greater value lies in admiring birds in nature. From the beginning, visuals have been an essential tool in that effort. Volume 1 featured “pictures actually taken in the field” and assured aspiring photographers they would find “no more delightful and profitable way of spending leisure hours.” In 1904 and for the next 22 years, paintings by the acclaimed artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes ran as Bird-Lore’s frontispiece, and after revolutionizing field guides in 1934, illustrator Roger Tory Peterson became the magazine’s art director. So it seems fitting that on the magazine’s quasquicentennial...