A few fun facts and features about one of Canada's most iconic birds. The post Why the Common Loon is Anything But Common ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for ... It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates that it dove ...

A mostly headless skeleton of a loon-size diving bird emerged from rocks that ... after fish and propelled itself with powerful kicking legs, Dr. Torres said. That is unlike any modern water ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.