Showing posts with label Loons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Loons. Show all posts

Yellow-billed Loon

The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii) breed in the Arctic in Russia, Alaska and Canada and winters at sea, mostly outside of Norway and western coasts of Canada. In winter the yellow-billed loon is sometimes found in big lakes.
Like other loons the yellow-billed loon is specialized on eating fish, which it catches under water.


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Arctic Loon

Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) is known as Arctic Loon in North America and Black-throated Diver in Eurasia.
Arctic loon nests in Scotland, Scandinavia, the Baltics, eastward through Siberia in Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Alaska. The Arctic loon is a bird which nests in clear fish-filled lakes in the interior or in bays and moving in winter to marine areas.
The bird places its nest on the ground, often on a tuft on the beach or a short distance up on land.

Arctic Loon is a bird drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta
Arctic Loon


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Red-throated Loon

Red-throated Loon  sketch painting. Bird art drawing by illustrator Artmagenta
Red-throated Loon
Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) is an aquatic bird found in the temperate region of the Northern Hemisphere. In winter the loon is found as far south as Mexico, Mediterranean, Turkey, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Common Loon

Common Loon bird painting by Artmagenta
Common Loon

The Loon is Canada's National Bird.

The Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer), is known as the Common Loon in North America and the Great Northern Diver in Eurasia. The Common Loon has its breeding distribution around the northern North America but also winters in the North Sea. It is Canada's national bird.
Loons bird drawing by Artmagenta