11 Birds That Are So Round They'll Roll Straight Into Your Heart

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.

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.