It’s been a while since I have thought about the Audubon Society’s taxonomy of birb. Audubon defines “Birbs” as small, round, and either cute or absurd; “borbs” are those birds that carry apparent roundness to an extreme; and most birds can “floof” when the mood suits them. I would classify this male White-crowned Sparrow as a “birb” round but not round to the extreme. This little guy is puffed up to against the cool morning temperatures at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, AZ a couple of weeks ago. You can expect to see a borb and/or a floof in this space in the near future.