(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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - The Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin has announced the winner of Wisconsin’s Fat Bird Week contest: the Hefty Horned Lark. The bird received 60% of the votes in the ...

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 ...

Friday marked the official start to the "Biggest Week in American Birding." According to Metroparks Toledo and the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, the week consists of a 10-day festival recognizing and ...

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. -- Wisconsin Fat Bird Week returns from May 2 through May 9, allowing the public is able to vote daily for their "favorite bulbous migratory" bird in a bracket-style tournament. The ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

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 ...

U.S. Reps. Bob Latta and Marcy Kaptur introduced a bipartisan resolution proclaiming May 5 through May 14 as “National American Birding Week,” according to a news release. Birding is a pastime that ...

We’re celebrating Bird Week all week on Minnesota Live, and we’ll check out the best state parks in Minnesota to go birding. Savannah Stephenson is a naturalist at Sibley State Park in New London, and ...