Duck mural in Astoria squawks about climate change
Audubon Society partners with developers for colorful piece near Hallets Point building
BY MAX PARROTT
The National Audubon
Society is partnering with
the Durst Organization
to paint a mural of a
climate-endangered duck
at 10 Halletts Point, the
developer’s new waterfront
building in Astoria.
The mural — a
collaboration with Gitler
& Gallery — will feature
American Black Ducks, a
species native to New York
that is being threatened
by the effects of climate
change. The project is part of
the Audubon Mural Project,
an undertaking inspired
by Audubon scientists’
2014 Birds and Climate
Change Report, which
concluded that over half of
American bird species are
under threat.
The mural’s bright,
sunset-colored blues and
oranges will stretch out
along a 175-foot wall. A male
and a female duck will f loat
along the gradient, just as
The new duck mural at Hallets Point in Astoria. Photos courtesy of Anne Smith
the species is often spotted
doing in the East River.
Australian artist
Peter Daverington has
implemented his graffitistyle
art to other Audubon
murals across the city.
So far, the conservation
group’s mural campaign
has painted 110 of the
species of the total
number of species named
in the report.
In finishing the mural
over the next week,
Daverington will spraypaint
the duck portraits up
on the wall. The mural is
slated to be finished by the
end of the week.
The ideal vantage
point to view the birds
will be the Upper
East Side.
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