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 ...

(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 ...

The tendency for those tiny birds to bulk up just before long migration flights — along with the popularity of the Fat Bear Week in which people vote on their favorite rotund Katmai grizzly bear ...

MADISON, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – Way… WAY… back in April of this year, we reported that the annual Wisconsin Fat Bird Week would happen in May. Part of the week’s ...

Spherical White-throated Sparrow took the prize at Wisconsin Fat Bird Week. The contest was organized by the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and SOS Save Our Songbirds. A funny ...

Fat is beautiful. Or at least it is to billions of North American birds now migrating — or getting ready to migrate — to winter homes in Mexico, Central America, South America and Caribbean ...

There they observed that fat birds usually move on the night of their arrival, while thin birds interrupt their journey for an average of almost two days. Their research is published in Biology ...

Wisconsin Fat Bird Week is held from May 2 to May 9. The online contests is organized through National Resources Foundation of Wisconsin and SOS Save Our Songbirds. It's a fun event featuring cute ...