The Impossibirds

these are not real…

Cutest birds ever?

Btw, what the heck are they and can I get some to decorate my Christmas tree next season?

oh…..my……god….
these are not real. they cant be. ok who photoshopped this?

[Depends upon which higher power you believe in. - Ed.]

Oh gawd, isn’t that sweet! And a very pretty picture indeed!

They like snowballs with some black markings on them.

Nobody is that cute. NOBODY. Fake pic.

Christmas card photo!

Not real. Too cute!

I’m sure there is some mathematical algorithm that can prove these guys can’t be real. Any math major cuteologists out there?

It’s my screensaver now. I love how the first and last birds are looking at the camera.

PS What ARE those boids? I’m pretty good at spotting them, but I don’r recognize these.

Oh my goodness! I have died and gone to some kind of heaven for boid lovers.

omg! Cotton balls with beaks!!! The berries are a great contrast, too. Soooo cute!

OH.EM.GEE. You have got to be kidding ME! You mean the actually found a way to make cottonballs FLY?!

these are photoshopped, right????
They are of course – CUTEOMATIC!
OK!!
TELL! TELL!!

[If by "photoshopped" you mean "fake", then the answer is No... - Ed.]

Cheep thrills. Coming soon to a branch near you.

If there were a larger version of this picture, I would set it as my desktop wallpaper forever.

What’s boid-speek for “baroo?”

NOMTOM – give us some backstory… pleeeeezzzz??? what ees eet?

This looks shopped to me. ;p
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time. XD
Just like Santa, the Economy, and snow in CA. Yup. ‘Shopped.
In fact*, went hiking for V-day and saw a couple of shopped hawks. I tell ya… Nature’s just getting lazy now. ^_~

*(By ‘Fact’, I quite obviously mean when I was high on paint fumes, lead paint chips and cookie batter.)

These are really Peeps, right?

This is total Christmas card, over-the-tope, gotta be fake because it’s too frackin cute-CUTE!

Total boid-kebab action.

I think they are some Bunting or other. The closest things we get around here are dark-eyed juncos (nice name, eh?)

Alephra,
there is snow in CA.

McKay’s bunting! I think Ceejoe nailed it! And where do they live?

Teresa, better than dark eyed junkies!

[That anything like "Black-Eyed Man" by the Cowboy Junkies? - Ed.]

OMG — I saw it was a NTM item & set my irony settings to the ready & thought to myself: “come ON, NTM, you expect ME (us) to accept that there is something CUTER than WINSTON OR MARU??? Why, I oughta…………”

and then I scrolled down & everything in me jist eVAPorated.
I am now OFISHE an ex-human; deceased; bereft of life, no longer
among the living, a hominid corpse, (etc.),………………………………………………….

(M. Python/ Norwegian Blue fans, unite!
(Unless YOU’RE ALL ded, as well)

I love how the 1st and 4th bird are looking at the camera with the same head tilt… I swear those birds are smiling!!

Oh, and Oakley, I missed you and your puns!!!

(“not quite ded yet”, after all……)

@ Noelegy: I actually DO HAVE a winter holidays card, in my stash of
“oh, look how sweet these cards are” cards….it has the branch w/ red berries, the
white snow, the bluer than blue (earworm, ennyone? sky in the background………………………………….and NO WHITE BIRDIE FLUFFBALLS.

(*pouting* then *ded* again.)

Bunting is just the perfect name for them -”Little baby bunting” I don’t remember what that’s from, though.

Impossibirds!!!

Floofballs with eyes.

Marshmallow peeps come to life!

They are so cute!

These floofy balls of cuteness are killing me…..KILLING ME!!!!!

I think these are Stay Puft Buntings.

Oops, somebody else kinda sorta already said something like that, and did it better. (#4)

I am now opening a bunting sanctuary. In my apartment. I wonder if these little guys ever migrate in my direction.

I would not want to get into a snowball fight with those things! They are just snowballs with wings!!!!

Lessee -I THINK I can fit all four boidies in my mouf… One, Tmwhooph, Ffffff, Puffughuffmmmrrr…

Once in a Fish: Thank you! I love the “Take Five music!” Most excellent.
Dose boids up top are just tooo, tooo… my, my, my….

@Once a Fish – Priceless. lololol

I don’t think these are buntings, they have way too small beaks, I call rather Long-tailed Tits, just with their tails hidden:
http://web.telia.com/~u67007024/images/Stj%E4rtmes.jpg

/end of birder-nerdiness

Who’s a cute little cotton ball?? Yes, you’re a cute little cotton ball!!

Ordinarily I get a little sniffy when people start calling “fake” on photos, but this one, my first reaction was “no freakin way is anything real that cute”!

Yes! @mie – that’s it! A long-tailed tit!!! (see #81)
Where do they live? I must go there!

@ceejoe: Yeah, and the white-headed ones are a specialty of Northern Europe. I have seen these live once, and they are the sweetest thing!
Some more pics, including cute babies perching and begging for food (around the middle of the page, pics around number 330) PLUS an added bonus of a sound clip of their song looping in the background:
http://www.lintukuva.fi/lajikuvat/aegcau/

@Once A Fish…THANKIES for posting the Pixar short! It was hilarious. Just the thing to pick me up after another slog through the work day!

Blobular analysis in progress… blobular analysis result concurs with mie, long tail tits with tails hidden. Thank you for using blobular analysis.

What in freak – what are those things?? Unreal!

This guy specializes in these insanely cute lovelies:
http://mikeatkinson.net/LongTailedTit.htm

Deffo long-tailed tits without the typical black stripes over the eyes. The Scandinavian form have pure white heads like in the photo. I love these and feel so lucky that I get to see them in my garden!
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/Sweden/photo197831.htm

Tiniest… beaks… ever!

Flickr has great shots of these guys….search under “long-tailed tit”:

One good example here.

Marshmallows on legs, cotton balls with wings, snowballs with beaks, fake, real–––

Who cares in the end? They’re qte, dedly, and I want one to add to my collection of “Things that Are So Disgustingly Cute You’ll Swallow Your Head.” Right next to the Pikachu-dudes from the Mt. Fuji Laboratory of Japanese Cuteness.

PS I can’t actually SEE any tails!

A newspaper column praising long-tailed tits:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_barnes/article6942394.ece

Unbelievable. Just unbefreakinlievable. And actually, I do have two little round white “birds” that go on my Christmas tree each year . . . and they look remarkable like these critters. Did you notice the photos of them next to pussywillow catkins? THEY’RE NOT MUCH BIGGER THAN THE PUSSYWILLOW CATKINS!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need this picture in wallpaper format. This picture would be awesome!

Holy crap, Kermit, it IS the bird in the Simon’s Cat cartoon. Snowball and everything!

I can’t believe nobody’s talking about that bokeh.

[It, uh, looks like... fog? - Ed.]

We have bushtits here in Oregon that are a soft gray color with no strong markings. They are officially long tailed bushtits but I never noticed the tails being very long. They come in flocks of 30 or 40 and only weigh about 5 grams ( by comparison, our little parakeet weighs 29 grams). I read the gray ones are the only ones in North America, the white ones are on another continent. They are smaller than the nuthatches and chickadees and are really cute little balls of fluff. They LOVE suet! But I guess the gray color doesn’t stand out as much as the white.

I’m thinking the Faroe Island snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis insulae.
Plectro from the Gr ‘to smite’, and ‘phenax’ meaning ‘to cheat’! So we’re not REALLY struck dead from the cute, we’re just pertending.
Nivalis is ‘snow’. Insulae is isolated/an island.
And ‘bunting’ means ‘short and plump’ in Gaelic, i.e., floofy.

So, deep breath: We’re ded of the Qte of the floofy snowy islander.
And when will these CO Christmas cards be ready for purchase? A dozen boxes, pls!

Check out this long-tailed tit with a feather!
http://www.lintukuva.fi/lajikuvat/kuvahtml/5aegcau301.html

so adorable! >.<

here's another good picture of a long-tailed tit: http://i1.treknature.com/photos/35/long-tailed_tit_mg_6532.jpg

That’s rather enjoyable, Ms.(Qo) D!!!

Tweet tweet, to you-hoo!!!

@ Qo’D I can’t yell “JINX” but we’re on the same wave length. I was thinking Cinderella !

Mud Bug: Yeah! Cinderella, too! She and Mary Poppins are skipping through the lovely, soft moss carpeted forest singing beautiful songs and these floofball birds are perched in the branches watching them quizzically and singing along. All is well under the golden, sun-lit dappled canopy and everything smells like something some laundry detergent company would KILL to replicate in a bottle! Yeah, like that!

A cute bird? Who’d a thunk it! But tis true!

blorparific winter chublets

poooofffph!

@ Qo’D They work for Snow White & Bambi too !

@ QoD:

(loving,indulgent sigh)

“I know, dear. I know. It will all be just fine, really. TRUST me!!!!
After all, I didn’t get to be a used-car saleswoman just by lookin’ cute!!!”

(I’m not sure how that’s supposed to convince you, but it sounded soothing enough to distract you, I was hoping…………)

(“The poor, sweet little darling. She’s been working TOO hard.
That SamKitty is gonna cause her to have a nervous breakdown.
Did you hear the interview, he did with Entertainment Tonight?
He said, he asks her about the BREAKFAST MENU, at 11 pm, the night BEFORE!!! Jeez.”)

Just when I thought I’d seen it all, Mother Nature goes and drops a branch load of long-tailed tits on us! These are easily the most adorable birds I have ever seen. They just look so happy and friendly. I wish they lived here in Virginia…

oh TL, just when I was going to leave a wholesome comment.

oh, i’ll do it anyway
There was once a song everyone publicly hated, but secretly hummed.
It was Debby Boone, You light up my life. I think these birds are that song..

I gotta confess, my first reaction was also “PHOTOSHOP! No WAY anything that cute can be real!” They’re straight out of a Disney fairytale!

But hey, we don’t have those boids in my part of the world, so pfffbbbt.

PLEASE, for the love of Dog, make this a wallpaper.

*ded*

*squeak*… OMIGOD…. floofycutes with beaks… eye capsules
………………….*thud*

Can’t believe I spent 24 years in Finland, and never saw these cute buggers! Desktop wallpaper. Thanks!

This is what I imagine the snitch looked like back when the wizarding world still used a bird

Too.
Cute.
Too.
Resist.

SOOOOOOOO CUTE!

Eeek *thud*
Squeak *thud*
Whimper *thud*
Squeee *thud*

Carries on indefinitely in same vein.

PS Theo, who is the pretty lady in your avatar photo? Do we know? Last time I looked properly(which was a while ago, admittedly, I’ve been very busy of late, it’s that time of year in work) you had one of your ginger cat.

[That'd be Tennille, and her days as profile pic are numbered - Ed.]

Baroo? http://www.teesmouthbc.com/tbcweb/2005com/d1/Long%20Tailed%20Tit%2024-11-05%20Cowpen%20Bewley%20WP.jpg

Everytime I look at this picture I could just swear I walked into a disney movie.!

ypu know I hear cinderella and or snow white music.

That is the cutest dryer lint I’ve ever seen!

If these feathered marshmallows don’t stop existing at once, I shall have to feed
them to my cat in order to stop obsessing about their ineffable cuteness.

*happy sigh* Excellent way to start out a Thursday… floofy boidies. Coffee is next.

So, has it been decided that it’s three long-tailed tits on a tree?

hey site administrators, put us out of our misery and tell us what type of birds these are!!

@2600Oakely
not to improve on greatness, but shouldn’t that be “cheep trills”?

I did find some stuff on ModCloth. But also found this darling necklace after googling “cute bird charm”: Amy Bengston’s Nest Necklace.

And here’s one by Lisa Leonard: sweet and simple birdie.

C armour I believe we acertained that they are long tailed tits with their lovely winter garb. versus their summer garb.

they could also be the McKay buntings but After much lookiing at many birdy pictures I am re choosing the tits.

(Opens door to snickering lounge for those peeps so afflicted.)

I’m still voting for McKay’s bunting. Those pics y’all posted of long tailed tits, I mean they have a lot of rusty/ ruddy color on the breast, belly and wing. And just a dab of yellow above the eye. These guys don’t.

Officially my new desktop picture! It goes very well with my maps that are white marbles Check it!

oh my god I CANNOT HANDLE THE PUFFBALLS!!!!

[Few can, Gwenz. Few can. - Ed.]

It just goes to show you that someday tits will rule the world.

Help … *gasp* … too cute…. can’t stand… *pass out*

My husband & I have decided that we are going to do like people did a long time ago with English Starlings…bring them over to America, breed them & then let them go, Cutest evar invasive species?

I agree, *bink!* works as a birdie “Baroo?”

And I would hug those little birds if it wouldn’t mash them into feathered pancakes.

At the Ed.’s discretion, I couldn’t resist adding a haiku of my own:

Four small tits perch here.
It’s quite cold, and they’re pointy.
“*bink!* What’s so funny?”

[Must be Friday somewhere. - Ed.]

AWW Those little birds look are the cutest looking fluffballs

After the comments on the name, it sorta wrote itself. Head to the lounge, thebothofya, the snickers and snickerdoodles are on me. (Well, what else would they serve there?) Whipped-cream-birdies as topping, optional but highly recommended. I swear these birds accumulate cuteness interest, they seem cuter every time I look…

Bonsai Birds!!!

After much Googling – Long Tailed Tits! (you have no idea what I had to preview!). Aegithalos Caudatus – head on shots. From Europe and Asia.
And…………………..it looks like someone figured it out before. Kudos.
I still want one!

they can’t be real.
but they’re really cute.
<3

That’s just lovely – it really is.

hey, QoD!! I just emailed you elsewhere & I’m about to go “down for the count” (read: lie down & go to bed) unless you happen to answer me there within 10 minutes or so?
Did peeps at your occupation treat you well (or at least decently) today?

Salute to SamKitty
Smooches to you

Queen of Dork: Your mutant-Mary Poppins earworm has been with me since you posted that. Help?

Put these together with those tiiiny white q-tip bats in the rain forest leaf and we’ll rule the world….bwahhahahah!

BStrange: how do you feel, about the theme song for Gilligan’s Island?

Chitty-chitty Bang bang???

I think they has tiipinness hedronesii. So defeatingly cute.

They are like some adorable Disney cartoon bird – like on Cinderella or Snow White.

OMG Theas birds are way to cute to bee real !!!!!!!!

I thingk I’m guna criy.
I wish I knew wut birds thes are.

I love these little guys!
In answer to those asking if these are Japanese: they probably are, or East Asian at least. The very white appearance seen from head-on, without much in the way of pink or dark markings, suggests Hokkaido race (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stellaceagle/2182497693/) to me.
There’s a lot of regional variation with these guys; Western European ones, and British in particular, have a lot more pink. Also more pronounced eyebrows. http://www.flickr.com/photos/47041254@N04/4353830453/
Of course, they’re all adorafuzzy : )

There are amazing cute, beautiful, wonderful things abounding on our home, earth and we all should appreciate this. The Pixar utube Short film for the Birds made me almost die laughing.!!!!!!

I canNOT get over these little boids. Jeepers! Now I see them every time I turn on my computer! And the branch with the berries, the perfectly placed boids, they all facing us and two of them going *bink*!

Why does everybody think these are fake? True, the cuteness level does defy all known laws of cute physics, but they look like real birds to me.

/The bar has been raised, LOLcats!

[Most folks aren't seriously saying they're fake, y'know - Ed.]

Absolutely adorable! Does anyone know where I could find this picture at a higher resolution? Thanks

OMG, it’s like the warm fuzzies from the 1-800-Flowers ads are real!

*Sobs* NOW I MISS MY BIRDIES! Curse you, CuteOverlords, and your ability to remind me of how freaking ADORABLE little feathery floofballs can be!!!

@Paunchie — great idea. This is now my screensaver, except these stupid icons keep blocking the birdees!!!

@Auntie Mame — Oops. I meant the triple breasted (word omitted for reasons of decency) of Eroticon 9. Now I really need a pangalactic gargle blaster.

[Six! Eroticon Six! Honestly, have you never BEEN there?!! - Ed.]

I believe I lost my towel in a tragic bulldozer accident. Or Marvin the paranoid android took it. Now where is that pangalactic gargle blaster? I needs to have my brain exploded… with a twist of lemon!

[Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they want me to evaluate Douglas Adams quotes... - Ed.]

Oh my dear sainted…Ed., you are cracking me up AND beating me to the corrections. Also re: pan-galactic gargle blaster: Like having your brain smashed in with a lemon wrapped around a gold brick.

OHMAGAWD….i just sploded. i wanna rub them on my face the one on the end is just too cute!!

THey are still Disney birds to me and my new work computer desk top every time I look at them I smile..

ahhh! flooftastic! i wants one! must….reach….tree branch! need…to….CUDDLE! *eehhnnn!*

Mercy Maud on me… I have been overcuted… these poofy babies are cute on steroids!!! I saw pics of them years ago in a National Geographic, but this pic is cute to the nth degree. There is a God and He was smiling when He made these cute babies!!

this is incredibly cute! i must have one.

can u buy these? i do not care if you hav to buy eet online. i will order 20 billion. or just give me onnnneeee pleeeezzz!!!! B:)

Seriously? It makes you sad that the Happiest Finches on Earth are a little chunky? Wow. Yours is a world I don’t want to live in.

I would buy this and hang it in my house – besides being fabulously cute, it’s very scenic. Does anyone know if I could make that happen somehow?

For my own needs, I’m gonna try my hand at drawering it.

Thanks for all the hard work, bird experts! The long tailed tit is now my new fave birdeh!

@Paunchie

Yo dude my art is copyrighted. LOL

Jimena,
How about the photographer’s copyright?
You should think twice before you start selling
>_<

OMG!! SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!! I DONT CARE IF THEY ARE PHOTOSHOPPED!!! THEY ARE THE MOST ADORABLE LITTLE FLOOF PUFFS IN THE WORLD!!! AND YEA, ALICE, I BARFED A RAINBOW TOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Good grief if anybody needs me, I'll be under the laundry heap - Ed.]

these are the cutest little puff puffys in the universe i really wish i could have one but i bet they are japenes OMg they are adorable!

Yah I love birds although afraid from them !

Jimena Sravia : How about a desktop image of your painting? Please? Pleez? Pleeeeezzzzzzzzzzz????????? Pretty pretty pleez with itty bitty beaky beaks and bitty birdy bird feets?

IT’S…JUST…TOO…CUTE!