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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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Uncommon ways of the Common Loon, aka Great Northern Diver
The Common Loon (Gavia immer) is one of five loon species ... This describes these birds perfectly. Their legs are positioned so far back on their bodies and also off to the sides of the bodies ...
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Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and ... It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates that it dove for its ...