Who is having fun in the tree tops?

Tree crowns are the highest point of a tree population. To put it simply, these are thick boughs and branches growing out of a trunk, forming the tree’s assimilatory apparatus. The shape and appearance of the crown varies between tree species. You can see examples on our movable boards.

It should not come as a surprise that the inhabitants of tree crowns are mainly animals that can fly. Here, you can meet almost all of the forest’s birds, including small songbirds, such as tits, nuthatches, tree creepers, bullfinches, waxwings, large songbirds, such as starlings, blackbirds, orioles, hoopoes, woodpeckers, and larger predatory birds, such as eagle owls and tawny owls, as well as spotted eagles, white-tailed eagles, and black storks.

In almost every forest you visit, you will encounter the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs.) Not many people know, but it is the most common bird in Poland.

Tree crowns are also inhabited by squirrels, dormice, and pine martens. You will also find many species of insects hiding tree crowns, including those harmful to the forest. Pine-tree lappets and black arches are voracious moths that eat the needles and leaves of trees with a large appetite.

After dusk, you can spot another mammal flying out of its tree top hiding spot—a bat (Chiroptera.) Contrary to many beliefs, there is no need to be afraid of them.

Hey, Explorer!

It is worth being alert in the forest. If you search hard enough, you will find life-sized wooden models of a bat and a pine marten that we have prepared for you.

Who knows… Maybe you can even spot a real chaffinch or another forest bird? Be sure to snap a photo!