Birch

Your desktop just got a lot more lively.

Birch places adorable animated birds directly on your Windows desktop.
They walk across the taskbar, fly to your icons, take naps when tired —
and notice when you're around.

Features

• Multiple bird species, each with a unique personality and movement style
  
• 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 — 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, 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 and deliberate, flies in clean straight lines
  
• Owl — sleeps through your workday. Comes alive after dark.
  
• Sparrow — can't sit still for two seconds
  
• Chicken — can't fly, but hops between icons with surprising conviction
  
• Woodpecker — the only one that perches sideways on your icons
  
• Toucan — hard to miss
  
• Flamingo — stays low, moves at its own pace
  
• Long-tailed Tit — tiny, fast, never stops
  
• Swallow — almost never lands; when it does, it won't stay long
  
• Java Sparrow — calm and compact, happy just to sit close

More species coming in future updates.

How it works

Birch runs as a transparent overlay above your desktop.
Your birds are always visible, but never block your windows or work.
Access settings or hide all birds anytime from the system tray icon.