"That's it!" I exclaimed, tossing the remote control on the couch. "One more misplaced loon and I'm going to ..." - well, write an article. The straw that broke the camel's back was the movie "Platoon ...

This column has a soundtrack, and you might know the one. Imagine yourself in the North Woods on a summer night, next to a clear, quiet lake. Now listen for the haunting calls of a common loon ...

On the New Hampshire lake where I spend much of the summer, loon calls are so common that I sometimes take them for granted. The sounds of the common loon (Gavia immer) are indicative of wilderness ...

Common Loons Prepare for Takeoff 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 ...

Montana’s loon population winters along the West Coast, between Puget Sound near Seattle south to Los Angeles. The bigger the loon, the shorter their migration, so the largest birds live closest to ...

Pam Perry didn’t need a DNR education to know the importance of the common loon to Minnesotans. Perry, DNR nongame wildlife lake specialist in the Brainerd area, grew up around the sights and sounds ...

On a cool, foggy, damp spring morning, a loon yodeled. The sound floated through the mist, causing me to pause in disbelief. Then it yodeled again. And one more time. The loon was calling from a small ...

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.