Bird estate for rent

From the begining of the project we consulted it with oritologists to ensure safety and easy access to food for birds. That is how we decided not to include the little stick, an element broadly used in many birdhouse designs that in reality provides an opportunity for predators. We set on a birdhouse design that can host, amongst many other species, house sparrows that reside in Poland even during winter months. The mural is situated on an elementary school, so the students can observe the birds all throughout the year as part of their curriculum. The top rows, due to sun exposure, will remain vacant and serve as a replacment to the occupied birdhouses at the bottom of the mural.   

Monika Domańska, Traffic Design

Snag trees often do not look perfect. They bear hollows, scars, cracks and dried branches. Even with a dead core, old trees can continue their existence for hundreds of years acting as hosts for thousands of different species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, fungi, lichen and plants. They make their survival possible, acting as life-saving arks. A snag tree can be considered a superorganism. Birds will find a home in the branches of our mural - the snag tree. For the last few decades small birds have been in trouble and their numbers have been dwindling. They cannot find enough food (insects and seeds), while their main hiding places, such as bushes and old trees, disappear from the landscape. Living in constant fear of predators, in urban environments mostly cats and dogs, they are trying to make do in a changing, polluted habitat.

Małgorzata Gurowska, artist