As you can see on your Google Homepage, today Google Doodle celebrates the 226th birthday of John James Audubon, the great ornithologist and naturalist, famous for “Birds of America.”
Audubon was a French-American ornithologist born on April 26, 1785 in Saint Dominique (Haiti) and died aged 65 in New York. The Google Doodle itself is a simple design of various birds on branches, and the spaces between the birds spell out the word Google although we admit that’s pretty hard to spot. The 435 life-size illustrations for “Birds of America” were hand-painted by Audubon himself and engraved on copper plates and are world-renowned and the book listed 700 North American birds, according to Wikipedia.
Audubon was a French-American ornithologist born on April 26, 1785 in Saint Dominique (Haiti) and died aged 65 in New York. The Google Doodle itself is a simple design of various birds on branches, and the spaces between the birds spell out the word Google although we admit that’s pretty hard to spot. The 435 life-size illustrations for “Birds of America” were hand-painted by Audubon himself and engraved on copper plates and are world-renowned and the book listed 700 North American birds, according to Wikipedia.
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