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6 Amazing Facts About Common Loons

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 ...
Tony Gangemi has captured a variety of subjects in his roughly four decades as a photographer. For the last seven years, his ...
This month we have a special column by a very qualified guest — Natasha Bartolotta, who is the Stewardship & Outreach Manager at the National Loon Center in Crosslake and a Minnesota Master Naturalist ...
MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the stillness ...