this is my favorite piece of internet misinfo people send me regularly because it's so funny to imagine that natural selection would be cruel enough to produce a passerine so small that it has to perch on a spruce needle and can be blown asunder by a light breeze. it has a conical bill for prying open seeds the size of it's own body and has chosen to perch on this man's finger for no discernable reason.
it's also made of felt. nature can be so brutal
