Birch

You're not the only one at this desk anymore.

Birch puts small, living birds right on your Windows desktop. Not inside a window you have to open. On the desktop itself, where you already spend your hours.

They get on with their day beside yours. Walking along your taskbar, settling on your icons, dozing off, waking up again. And every so often one of them notices you're there.

There's nothing to feed and nothing to manage. They just keep you company while you work, and after a while the place starts to feel like theirs too.

Stay a while, and they warm up to you.

Spend quiet time near them and you'll start to notice small changes. They sit a little closer. They react a little differently. Stay around long enough and one of them might bring a friend.

Features

Multiple bird species, each with its own personality and way of moving

Interactive: birds react when you hover or click near them

Perches on your real desktop icons, not just the background

Dynamic behavior: idle, walk, fly, rest, startled, and more

Familiarity system, so the more time you spend together, the warmer they become

Unlock system: discover new species by bonding with your current birds

Multi-monitor support

Lightweight, runs quietly in the system tray and never gets in your way

Birds available at launch

White Cockatoo : sociable and restless, always claiming the nearest icon

Yellow Cockatoo : active and expressive, hard to ignore

Eagle : calm, deliberate, flies in clean straight lines

Owl sleeps through your workday and comes alive after dark

Sparrow can't sit still for two seconds

Chicken can't fly, but hops between icons with surprising conviction

Woodpecker is the only one that perches sideways on your icons

Toucan : hard to miss

Flamingo stays low and moves at its own pace

Long-tailed Tit : tiny, fast, never stops

Swallow almost never lands, and when it does it won't stay long

Java Sparrow is happy just to sit nearby, calm and compact

Always there, never in the way

Your birds stay with you while you work, but they never cover your windows or block what you're doing. Open the settings or hide them all at any time from the system tray.