Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

He was the boy who loved birds, and he was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1874.

And young Louis had nature in his blood and wonder in his eyes.

He was named after the famous Swiss American naturalist, uh, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz.

Louis was sketching live birds by the age of 14, and he was inspired by the works of John James Audubon.

I mean, imagine being 17 years old and becoming the youngest ever associate member of the American Ornithologist Union simply because your field sketches were that dazzlingly accurate.