The date is celebrated globally and has its origin in a fascinating story. It all began in England in 1943 with a 7-year-old girl named Dorie Cooper, who went to visit her uncle, who had been injured in the war. She found him deeply distressed as he had lost his right leg. In an attempt to cheer him up, Dorie asked him to draw a bird. He looked out the window, spotted a robin, and drew it. She found the drawing amusing and told her uncle that he wasn’t a very good artist, but she would still hang the drawing in her room. Her honesty made her uncle and the other soldiers present laugh.

            From then on, every time Dorie visited her uncle, they held drawing contests. For a long time, the walls of the entire ward were decorated with bird drawings.

            Sadly, the game was interrupted by a tragic event: Dorie was killed in a car accident three years later. At her funeral, bird drawings made by soldiers, nurses, and doctors from the ward were placed on her coffin. Since then, people have remembered the little girl who brought hope to the ward by celebrating "Draw a Bird Day" on April 8th, her birthday. The day has grown in significance and is now celebrated worldwide as a way to express joy in the simplest things in life. To commemorate it, people draw birds on this day and share them in public places or on social media.