Why is the loon Minnesota’s state bird? It almost didn’t happen.
Spotify Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and ...
Common loon named 2025 Bird of the Year by American Birding Association
FREEPORT, Maine — The American Birding Association has named its 2025 bird of the year, and it's a bird Mainers are quite familiar with. This year's winner is the common loon. "Loons are big, they're ...
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Revealed: Here is the 2025 American Birding Association Bird of the Year
says in its announcement that the Common Loon is their 2025 Bird of the Yea r. Here in Minnesota, the Loon is a larger-than-life mascot. Just this last year a 32.5 foot tall sculpture of a Loon ...
Uncommon ways of the Common Loon, aka Great Northern Diver
I am wrapping up my loon photo tours for 2018. Dozens of photographers from around the world came to my home state of Minnesota and joined me to photograph and learn about the life cycle and ...
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Ornithological Sleuths Expose an Extremely Specific Nosferatu Anachronism
Nothing ever gets past the internet. Fans have spotted a minor inaccuracy in the movie Nosferatu. Here are the details.
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American Birding Association names Minnesota's loon bird of the year
The national honor bestowed upon the official state bird of Minnesota earlier this month confirms what Minnesotans already know well — just how special the loon is. The common loon is known for ...
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...