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  2. Common loon - Wikipedia

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    The common loon or great northern diver (Gavia immer) 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.

  3. Loon - Wikipedia

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    The common loon is the provincial bird of Ontario and is depicted on the Canadian one-dollar coin, which has come to be known affectionately as the "loonie". [43] The common loon is the official state bird of Minnesota. [44] Mercer, Wisconsin, promotes itself as the "Loon Capital of the World". [45]

  4. List of U.S. state birds - Wikipedia

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    The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [4] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States, American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.

  5. Video of Baby Loon Getting a Ride From Mama Bird Has ... - AOL

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    Loon Nesting Behavior Though they prefer marine life, loons do come ashore for breeding season, building nests in vegetation alongside deep bodies of water. Loons most often make their nests in ...

  6. Yellow-billed loon - Wikipedia

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    The yellow-billed loon is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies; [12] in the Americas, it is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. [13] The yellow-billed loon is especially vulnerable because of its low fecundity, and face many threats related to their ...

  7. Loon Teaches Baby to Hunt From Pond By Bringing Over ... - AOL

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    In the clip, we see exactly how an adult loon teaches its offspring to catch fish in glorious slow motion. Here, a swimming adult loon approaches a baby loonlet with a tiny minnow trapped in its beak.

  8. Minnesota state bird to get its due at National Loon Center ...

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    CROSSLAKE, MINN. — An $18.5 million facility dedicated to the state bird is expected to break ground this fall and draw 200,000 visitors annually once doors to the Nation Loon Center open here ...

  9. List of Minnesota state symbols - Wikipedia

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    A common loon is depicted on the state seal. [6] Originally, eight bird choices were proposed in the late 1940s, which in addition to the common loon included the eastern goldfinch, the mourning dove, the pileated woodpecker, the scarlet tanager, and the wood duck. [1] Each of these were eligible because they were not the state birds of another ...

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