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 ...

(1) Yellow buntings were caught at a roost near Oxford on nine nights in the winter of 1966-67, and samples of ten to twenty birds killed for analysis of body composition. (2) Fat and water contents ...

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 ...

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 ...