Paint the Town
The Audubon Mural Project uses public art to showcase birds highly vulnerable to a changing climate. Now communities are putting their own spin on the effort.
AN UNUSUAL FLOCK IS TAKING FLIGHT: storefront sparrows, grouses on grates, walls full of warblers. As part of the Audubon Mural Project, more than 100 such works have proliferated in New York City, where the public-art initiative featuring climate-threatened bird species launched in 2014. Now, the murals are winging their way across the country—from a Black Rail peering into a Washington, D.C., park, to a White-crowned Sparrow alighting on a campus in San Diego.
“I can’t think of anything better than a bird
