Cute animals come in many shapes – some are highly athletic, some are adorably pudgy, and these guys are perfectly spherical and amazingly fluffy animals. Call ‘em birds, or birbs, or orbs. Give ‘em names. But no one can take that smolness and birbness away.
What you're seeing is not the work of some magic or Photoshop, these funny animals are actually perfectly round. There's nothing better than looking like a fluffy ball of daintiness, and these cutest animals are ready to show it off cause, baby, they were born this way!
Eurasian Bullfinch Is A Cute Fluff Ball Of Peach Feathers: Eurasian Bullfinch is a bulky bull-headed bird. The Male has a grey mantle. Rump is white, contrasting with a blackish tail. Wings are blackish with only one pale wing bar. Underparts are pink-red, with white vent. Academic descriptions of this bird refer to it as a "redbreast", "pink-red", or "rosy breast, but clearly, there is no need to use all those words, when this stunning bird is peach-colored. Anyway, these cuties are common throughout Europe and Asia, with habitat stretching all the way from the British Isles to Japan.
The Pink Robin It's Just So Round: The Pink Robin is a small tubby bird, and is easily over-looked, being quieter than other robins. Males are brownish-black above, with a black throat and head. There is a small white spot above the bill, which is a buff spot on the female. Males have a diagnostic pink wash on the breast which extends right down under the belly. Females are a warm olive-brown above, with cinnamon buff underparts with a pinkish tint. Females and young birds have diagnostic buff wing patches. This species has a plain dark tail, lacking the white edges of other Petroicarobins.
Not To Be Outdone In Borbliness, New Zealand Has The Takahe: The flightless takahē is a unique bird, a conservation icon and a survivor. The takahē is the largest living member of the rail family and the biggest flightless bird to survive in New Zealand. Takahē are found only in New Zealand. They belong to the Rallidae (rail) family of birds.
The Roundly Goldcrest: The goldcrest is one of Europe's smallest birds. Its English and scientific names come from its colorful golden crest feathers, and is also possibly the reason it is known in European folklore as "king of the birds". The tiny goldcrest is a dull grayish-green, on its head there is a black and yellow stripe, with an orange center in adult males, and its belly is pale. Its thin beak is perfect for picking out insects from between pine needles.
The Bearded Reedling Is A Birb That Can Do A Mean Splits: These birds can't be confused with any other one, because their looks and poses are their distinctive features.The unique appearance of these birds makes them easily recognizable in nature. Just look for a tiny, egg-shaped, fluffy bird, that enjoys resting by doing a split on three branches, and there you have the Bearded Reedlings.
This Long-Tailed Tit That Looks Like A Floating Cotton Ball: They look like white cotton balls bouncing around and are beloved by the Japanese, who call them Shima enaga. In English, they're known as long-tailed tits, though this particular subspecies is only found in Hokkaido. What makes Hokkaido's long-tailed tits so special? All members of the species are tiny, measuring 13 to 15 centimeters long—and half of that is tail.
Eurasian Blue Tit: The Eurasian Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus or Cyanistes caeruleus), is a bird which enjoys gardens and eats from bird feeders and tables. The blue tit is also loved by many gardeners as it eats aphids. Similar to the Great Tit in appearance, the Blue Tit is slightly smaller, measuring about 12 cm in length, 18 cm in wingspan and weighing about 10 grams, and has overall colder colours. It has a dull green back, blue nape, wings and tail, a white wing bar, yellow underparts, a blue crown, a white supercilium and a dark blue stripe that crosses the eye and borders the white cheek all the way down to the chin, where it forms a small bib. The wings are rounded and the tail is slightly forked. The bill is short, fine and dark, and the legs are grey.
You'd Be Forgiven If You Thought The Term "Plumbeous" Referred To The Roundness Of This Bird: The Plumbeous Vireo is matte gray above and white below—it's the most monochrome of the three species once combined as "Solitary Vireo." Plumbeous sings a pleasing, burry song as it forages through dry pine forests in the beautiful canyons and mountains of the interior West, Great Basin, and Mexico. During migration and the nonbreeding season, this species often joins mixed-species flocks of woodland birds, especially on its wintering grounds.
Butterball Birb (Yellow Tanager): A clear look at a male Western Tanager is like looking at a flame: an orange-red head, brilliant yellow body, and coal-black wings, back and tail. Females and immatures are a somewhat dimmer yellow-green and blackish. These birds live in open woods all over the West, particularly among evergreens, where they often stay hidden in the canopy. Nevertheless, they're a quintessential woodland denizen in summertime, where they fill the woods with their short, burry song and low, chuckling call notes.
Nearly Perfectly Round Long-Tailed Tit: The long-tailed tit is easily recognizable with its distinctive coloring, a tail which is bigger than its body, and undulating flight. Gregarious and noisy residents, long-tailed tits are most usually noticed in small, excitable flocks of about 20 birds. Like most tits, they rove the woods and hedgerows, but are also seen on heaths and commons with suitable bushes.
Fiery-Throated Hummingbird: The Fiery-throated Hummingbird (Panterpe insignis) - also known as Irazu Hummingbird - is a common, medium-sized hummingbird that occurs naturally in in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama. They are usually found in cloud forests at elevations of 1,400 m (4,600 feet) or above; as well as frequenting scrub at the woodland edges and clearings.