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 ...

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

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 ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the challenging waters off Antarctica roughly 69 million years ago, just three ...

The wide diversity of birds on Earth should be a reminder to us all that the natural world is a place where life takes all shapes, colors and forms. I was reminded of this recently while running ...

Ungainly on land, the loon moves with grace and ease through the water, diving in an instant with its large feet propelling it toward the lakebed in search of fish. Inhabitant of the arctic reaches, ...

That is the sound of two Common Loons communicating over "the expanse of a glassy lake," the American Birding Association (ABA) says in its announcement that the Common Loon is their 2025 Bird of ...

(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 ...