Jul. 30—Around the early 1980s, lakes in Montana began buzzing with the increasing noise of boats and motorized personal watercraft. While people were having fun in the sun, they were unknowingly ...

Across the sunset stillness of a deserted northern lake, the unearthly wail of the common loon completed a lifetime memory. Loons were calling and the water was like glass. I was scuba diving in Lake ...

To heft their bodies into the air, loons need a long runway, much like an airplane getting ready for a flight. These loons require as much as 600 feet of open water to eventually get into the air. Did ...

It’s our Spring Member Drive and we’re trying to raise $16,000 by March 19. Will you make a gift to help us reach our goal? A migratory diver of the loon family, the common loon (Gavia immer) has been ...

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 ...

Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird in 1961 because lawmakers and bird experts agreed that no other animal captured the state’s wild, lake-centered identity as clearly as this sleek, red ...

The population of a beloved Maine bird, the common loon, dipped for the second straight year, but wildlife surveyors said they are heartened by an increased number of the bird's chicks.Maine has the ...

A common loon flaps its wings, which are short in comparison to its body size. Loons' small wings require them to get a running start to fly, according to Montana Loon Society President Lynn Kelly.