It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila Johnston, listening ...

Kathryn Xu: This weekend, my family and I went up to Lake Placid, where I saw several loons. As is the case when I see birds of note, I informed Barry Petchesky of this fact, only to discover that I ...

If you want to use the given JSON compiler made in JavaScript, you can install it with this command: LOON files (that end in .loon) have a basic structure, there are two hierarchies and key-value ...

It turns out the invention of the MP3 format was a combination of vision, overtime and stubbornness – as well as a good dose of luck. Thirty years ago, on July 14, 1995, a new file format called MP3 ...

GERMFASK, MI - Michigan’s best-known wildlife mom has done it again, hatching chicks #43 and #44 last week at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula. This makes the loon, known as ...

Sheila Johnston on Upper Gull Lake on June 24. She's long loved photographing loons, but one experience led her to become an advocate for protecting the Minnesota state bird.

During a short paddle in mid-June, a staff member from the Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation and I drifted near a small island on a northern Adirondack lake. The island was filled with white ...

US THROUGH THE CENTER OF WAYNE, MAINE, ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF A CALM AND GLASSY POCASSET LAKE, AND JUST A BIT FURTHER UP MAIN STREET, WHERE WE MET UP WITH SOMEONE ELSE BEHIND THE WHEEL. MOLLY ...

Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and now even on the official state seal. Fireplace mantels across the state sport carved ...

MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the stillness ...