Like all the other birds, when it’s very cold, the robin can inflate its plumage to make the insulating layer made of air bubbles - caught by the feathers filaments - bigger. With its head hidden under a wing not to disperse the heat, it looks like a ball… made out of feathers, since that under the plumage there is a very little fat.
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