At the mist-netting station in the woods at Creamer’s Field in Fairbanks, volunteers and professionals briefly cupped more than 2,000 songbirds in their hands this fall. Toward the end of the season ...

MADISON — The race to find Wisconsin's floofiest fowl — its most ample avian — its chonkiest chirper — is on. Just as Katmai National Park and Preserve has "Fat Bear Week," Wisconsin is amid its first ...

Take a bow, fat bears, and exit the stage. It's time for chonky birds to soak up the limelight. Enormous Eastern Bluebird will be one of eight contenders in Fat Bird Week. It's bracket-style online ...

MADISON, Wis. -- As birds of all feathers begin their migration north to Wisconsin and points beyond, a new contest seeks to highlight the most festively plump of them all. The Natural Resources ...

(WSAW) - Feathers will fly every day between April 19 and April 26 as bird lovers vote for their favorite bulbous bird in the first-ever Fat Bird Week online contest, hosted by the Natural Resources ...

Bird enthusiasts may shiver at the thought of their favorite backyard birds enduring long winter nights outside in the cold. While Southern California enjoys more moderate temperatures than most of ...