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John James Audubon and the “Birds of America” celebrated by Google Doodle

John James Audubon Google DoodleGoogle’s John James Audubon Doodle “catalogued.”

Google is celebrating the 226th birthday of French-American Ornithologist and painter John James Audubon today, with a very simple and minimalist tweaked logo. Apparently, the popular logo of the search engine giant is hidden inside the Audubon doodle.
According to John James Audubon’s Wikipedia entry, he’s still popular today after cataloguing and describing a lot of birds of North America “in a manner far superior to what had gone before.” From Snowy Heron, Brown Pelican to Wild Turkey, a total of 435 continent-native birds were beautifully drawn by Audubon.
I checked a popular online store to see if there are available Audubon books and I found few versions of  ”Birds of America” sporting different tag prices and different covers. The most expensive is worth $260, while the cheapest is around $116. There are also coloring books for kids worth $3.95 each.
Last week, Google also tweaked their logo to celebrate the Earth Day.
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