haha! so that’s why all the sparrows I see here in the tropics are small! thank you @birder!

Yes, Oso, it is a cold-climate thing. That’s why down quilts work. We use birds’ down (and feathers) and let them trap air around us. Then our bodies’ heat warms the air. The birdies carry their quilts around with them, and floof themselves up to make the air spaces that their body heat warms up.

I never seen a tree sparrow that foofy before O_O is it a cold climate thing?

Ok so I’m a boid tweet f-ing tweet.

How can one so fluffy be so serious?

FINALLY. I figured out what kind of bird he is. Eurasian tree sparrow. See http://www.kolkatabirds.com/mizoram/treesparrow8m.jpg.

In the background of his own picture above you can see the wing pattern on another bird out of focus in the background.

I agree with those who say his eyes are actually in the “mask” next to his beak. The lower black spots are cheek patches. But definitely if he put his face on upside down the cheek patches would look like eyes! Maybe that’s a camouflage thing as on butterflies and caterpillars, fake eyes to fake out a hungry predator!

Weird. Now that you mention it Annie, his eyes are BELOW his beak as opposed to being above it.

Maybe it’s the angle of the shot but that’s kinda, odd. Like having eyes in your cheeks/jowls.

sometimes i’m all spastic as i frantically type in ‘www.cuteoverload.com’ and, in my haste, i instead type in ‘cuteoverLoRd’ and then i get sucked into looking at cute pictures of Mao and Darth V. and Lenin…

ok maybe not

Annie – I am glad I am not the only one! I thought maybe the aliens were photoshopping my brain so to speak.

Okay I found one more awesome thing right above his eyes his eyebrows look like furbrows and they are knitted in disapproval. And Optially delicious, Yup upside down head visual.