On a sweltering late summer morning in Washington Heights, three men took turns climbing ladders as they precariously balanced 11-foot-long paintings. Pedestrians looked on curiously as the quiet street west of Broadway transformed into a construction zone. Despite an impending thunderstorm, the crew kept at work until the two murals finally hung securely on the unassuming wall between a deli and apartment complex. The birds looking out from them confront viewers face-on. Their message is unequivocal: It’s time to turn an eye to climate change. Brooklyn-based artist George Boorujy intentionally made the warblers larger than life. Like other birds featured in the 吃瓜黑料 Mural Project, which turns the northern Manhattan neighborhood where John James 吃瓜黑料 once lived into a giant avian-art scavenger hunt, these act as ambassadors for conservation. The project’s goal is to paint all 314 species identified as threatened by climate change in 吃瓜黑料’s Birds and Climate Change...