The gray-brown birds have distinctive ... red eyes and black-and-white checkerboard bodies. They can sometimes be spotted in southern Wisconsin as they migrate back to the northern Wisconsin ...

Every year, between April 15th and June 15th, bird lovers of every feather find their way to the great state of Wisconsin for ... Look for an owl that is white with black spots.

A very round white throated sparrow is the heavyweight champion of the 2025 Wisconsin Fat Bird Week contest. The bird, coined ...

And for a couple of weeks during spring and fall migration, white-throated sparrows ... There among the common neighborhood birds was a petite, brown-and-black streaked bird with a bright ...

Bird lovers have spoken, and the official champion of Wisconsin Fat Bird Week 2025 is Spherical White-throated Sparrow. Online voting in the contest was held from May 2 through May 9. Voters chose ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A new champion has flown its way into becoming this year's Wisconsin Fat Bird Week winner. The "Spherical White-throated Sparrow" garnered 72% of votes in the final round while ...

Since December, bird flu has also been detected in wild birds across Wisconsin, including in Dane, St. Croix, Wood and Brown counties. Though human spread of bird flu is rare, dozens of human ...

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 ...