Animals / Bird

Common loon

Gavia immer · Gaviidae

The common loon or great northern diver is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds. Breeding adults have a plumage that includes a broad black head and neck with a greenish, purplish, or bluish sheen, blackish or blackish-grey upperparts, and pure white underparts except some black on the undertail coverts and vent. Non-breeding adults are brownish with a dark neck and head marked with dark grey-brown.

Where the Common loon lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Ontario, California, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and Maryland.

See the Common loon’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 3,214,918 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.