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.

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.