Obese Sydney bird sent to birdy bootcamp By Reuters June 2, 20108:08 AM PDTUpdated June 2, 2010 ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

The porky kookaburra weighed in at 565 grams (1.2 pounds), nearly 40 percent heavier than a normal adult bird, rendering her so unfit she couldn't fly. "Out in the wild she'd eat a whole small ...