The Easiest Birdwatching You’ll Ever Do (12 Photos)

October 11, 2026

By Vidar

In Stavelot, Belgium, Adele Renault painted one pigeon across an entire house.

The other 11 birds in this collection perch on walls, gables and bare ground from Minnesota to Australia. No hide, no early alarm, no field guide required.

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🕊️ “Pigeons Always Fly Home” — By Adele Renault in Stavelot, Belgium 🇧🇪

Adele Renault turned an entire house into one pigeon. The beak and eye take the gable, iridescent feathers run down to the ground, and a small window sits right in the bird’s face. The local cultural center places it at the old Stavelot railway station on Avenue André Grégoire.

💡 Pigeon Fact: Pigeon fanciers once commissioned portraits of their best birds, and the cultural center writes that Renault brings that old tradition back.

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🐤 “Helmeted Honeyeater” — By Jimmy Dvate in Richmond, Australia 🇦🇺

A helmeted honeyeater perches among yellow flowers on a narrow red-brick wall. Jimmy Dvate’s portfolio lists the mural in Richmond, Victoria.

💡 Conservation Fact: It is Victoria’s bird emblem, but Zoos Victoria describes the helmeted honeyeater as critically endangered.

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🪺 Mural de les Cigonyes — By Oriol Arumí in Lleida, Spain 🇪🇸

Two white storks stand over their chick in a nest painted high on a residential building. Lleida.com reported that the residents’ and traders’ association of Noguerola, Estació and Segre commissioned it for Avinguda del Segre 16.

💡 Nerd Fact: The spot was picked on purpose: the mural is meant to welcome everyone entering the city, and its theme comes from the nature around the river Segre.

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🦅 Bald Eagle — By Blesea in Cherbourg, France 🇫🇷

Blesea wrapped a bald eagle’s head around a concrete block, so the yellow beak turns the corner. The man standing on top shows how big it is. Blesea is a Cherbourg painter, and Tendance Ouest has covered his earlier work on old wartime blockhauses around the town.

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🌸 Petal Bird — By Hannah Bullen-Ryner in the UK 🇬🇧

A small bird made of leaves, seeds and petals sits in a ring of purple petals on bare ground. Bullen-Ryner works only with locally found natural materials and no permanent fixings, so the weather usually gets the last word.

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🦅 Red-Tailed Hawk — By Taylor Berman in Hastings, Minnesota, USA 🇺🇸

A red-tailed hawk spreads its wings across a turquoise building on Sibley Street. Berman’s mural notes add prairie clover, lupine and black-eyed Susans around it.

💡 Sound Fact: The “eagle” scream you hear in movies is often this hawk. The Missouri Department of Conservation explains that Hollywood editors prefer the red-tail’s stronger call.

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🦉 Owl and Poppy — By CAL in Lyon, France 🇫🇷

CAL drew a tiny owl inside a patch of missing plaster, and a real red poppy grows right next to it. The Lyon artist is best known locally for small drawings that turn street furniture into something else. This is the smallest bird in the post, and the easiest to walk past.

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🦜 Parrot — By Curtis Hylton in Bristol, England 🇬🇧

A giant yellow and orange parrot spreads over the side of Jans Barbers on East Street. Hylton painted it for Upfest 2022.

💡 Nerd Fact: Hylton was already an Upfest regular: Inspiring City notes that he painted murals for the festival in 2020 and 2021 too.

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🐦 Robin and Tulips — By MIKA in Bergerac, France 🇫🇷

A European robin opens its beak beside pink tulips and a small birdhouse, on a wall painted the same orange as its chest. A Street Art Pedia post credits MIKA and places it in Bergerac.

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🦉 “Owl” — By Tech Moon in Bristol, England 🇬🇧

A magenta owl stares out between gray swirls, and the woman posing in front barely reaches its chin. Art UK lists it simply as “Owl”, painted around 2022 for Upfest on Clift House Road. Photo by Paul Zappa.

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🐦 Seagull — By Banksy in Lowestoft, England 🇬🇧

Banksy’s seagull dives down the side of a house toward a real skip, and the insulation scraps inside pass for chips. The BBC reported that Banksy claimed it in August 2021 as part of his “A Great British Spraycation” video.

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