They’re here! Really big birds have landed on Broadway courtesy of Brooklyn-based artist Nicolas Holiber and the Audubon Sculpture Project. Perched between 64th and 157th street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the super-sized sculptures made from reclaimed wood found on New York City streets depict birds that either live in or migrate through Manhattan. This conservation art initiative was conceived to draw attention to the fact that nearly half of the birds in North America will be impacted by climate change, including the handsome double-crested cormorant above, currently spreading its wooden wings at 105th street. While the double-crested cormorant is a highly adaptable species found on coastal and inland waters, it is not certain that it will be able to adjust to the northward shift into the climate space of the boreal forest of Canada that is predicted to occur by 2080 at current rates of warming.

You can visit the double-crested cormorant on Broadway along with other New York native birds including the hooded merganser, snowy owl, and red-necked grebe now through January 2020. And if you’d like to see a real live cormorant clan doing their swooping, swimming, diving, fishing thing, be sure to swing by the Central Park Reservoir. For the love of all birds, you can help keep the beaked beauties of New York and North America flying by supporting the work of the National Audubon Society year round. And wherever you are in the world, you can get a bird’s-eye view of their daily happenings courtesy of the Audubon bird cams.