The yellow-billed loon is a born diver. 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 ...

The yellow-billed loon is a born diver. 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 ...

Canada’s iconic loon is among up to 60 species of Canadian migratory birds that are in danger of being trapped in the toxic net of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, bird experts say. “The Gulf is at the ...

If it dives like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck and flies like a duck, is it a duck? Maybe not, but Chinese and US scientists do believe the long extinct Gansus may be an ancestor of the modern ...

Extremely capable swimmers, they can catch fish using their webbed feet for propulsion. They are also extremely strong fliers, able to migrate up to 600 miles in a single day. Because they are ...

A lonely loon landed last month on a small suburban Virginia pond in a residential neighborhood, then it got stranded. For weeks, a group of strangers came together online and in person to develop a ...

Canada is home to more than 450 bird species, yet somehow Canada is still one of the few nations that does not recognize a national bird. Canadian Geographic, with the help of Bird Studies Canada and ...

Dozens of common loons – the mascot bird of the Northwoods – have fallen from the icy, sleeting skies of northern Wisconsin. The “loon fallout” phenomenon across April 19-20 this spring wasn’t just ...

LAS VEGAS — A visit from a rare, fine-feathered tourist on the Las Vegas Strip interrupted a hotel-casino's prominent water show before wildlife biologists captured the yellow-billed loon and ...

Over the last 10 years, Alaskans have become more familiar with Pacific Loons, North America's most abundant loon species, which migrates each summer from its ocean habitat to Alaska where the birds ...

A trip to Iceland…not: This was supposed to be a series of columns about my birding trip to Iceland. However, our plans fell through and we ended up going to the next best place…the Connecticut Lakes, ...