Hopping along like a little bouncing ball

eBirb

They do the splits too, not a joke:

Very cool bird. :) https://birdfeederhub.com/facts-about-bearded-reedlings/

careful, you might start validating physicists. "Assume for the sake of simplicity that the bird is a sphere"

Borb

They are in their own taxonomic family but that still does not stop people from calling them “bearded tits”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_reedling

Please tell me it flies like a balloon.

Would you say it looks.... angry?

I read this in John Oliver's voice

This bird looks like it came straight out of angry birds

One time I was in a bird enclosure at a zoo and there was this Asian pigeon in there which looked like a short, fat peacock (but without the long tail). It was by far my favorite thing in there because of how squat and round it was.

Me, a physics educator: “Interesting!” takes note

Oh lawd he roun

An actual Pokemon

Rotund.

https://lemmy.world/post/11444745

This bird is in a black metal band

Am I the only one thinking it looks like Dr robotnik?

Known as a Bearded Tit round these parts.

What a beautifully rotund creature

Nonsense, these three are clearly more spherical (Eagle owl)
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AC9BAX/eagle-owl-eggs-in-nest-three-bubu-bubo-spain-AC9BAX.jpg