Stephen Fredericks was walking through Central Park on the January morning when New York was expecting a record blizzard (that didn’t come) when he came upon a Mallard stuck in the snow. “It was sopping wet and I could tell that it was freezing to death,” he says. The artist and bird-lover is a member of the Wild Bird Fund, a non-profit organization on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that rehabilitates injured birds and wildlife. He knew that was where this bird needed to go. Fredericks delicately picked up the soaked Mallard and waved down a NYC Parks Conservancy SUV. He explained the situation to the Parks employee and asked if he could help. The driver agreed to keep the bird in the back of his truck while Fredericks called another Parks employee, who was luckily free to drive them. A short while later the bird was safely in the hands of volunteers who could begin to dry off its feathers with a hairdryer and treat it for a Clostridium, a bacterial infection in the...