Don saw the barren void of thick green lawns and verdant shrubbery; and, in 1957, he created his seminal work -- the pink lawn ornament flamingo -- to give lawns the necessary "nature's touch" they so obviously lacked on their own. Millions of Americans have since decorated their lawns with Featherstone's naturalistic hard plastic birds, whose numbers now exceed real flamingos (and all other indigenous bird species in America) by a factor of 10 to 1....Learn about more heroes.