Category: Winter Mighty Mites

The smallest of our winter birds at just 0.2oz (you could mail 5 of them for one stamp!). Can survive down      to -40F by lowering its body temperature at night.  

  At 0.3oz, it searches for nutritious insects hiding under the bark of tree trunks.  

  Was that a mouse scampering through the dense cover of the forest? Winter Wrens move quickly in search of insects and sometimes fruit.  Just 0.3oz!

  Not a great picture …but it shows the Chickadee making use of the magic of down insulation on the coldest days.  Fluffing feathers creates ‘dead air’ that insulates this 0.4oz bird. 

  Getting enough high-energy insects is how these active, tiny birds survive the winter. They weigh just 0.4oz each.