Mel White, a contributing editor to
National Geographic Traveler, has been a birder for forty years and is the author of the
American Birding
Association A Birder's Guide to Arkansas, among other books.
Paul Lehman, an ornithologist and avian mapping expert, was chief mapping consultant for the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America and the National Geographic Atlas to the Birds of North America.
Jonathan Alderfer, chief consultant for the National Geographic Birding Program, is a respected field ornithologist and one of America's foremost birding artists.