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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 ...
More About Yellow-Billed Loons. The yellow-billed loon is one of the Top 10 rarest birds in the U.S., and they are usually found in coastal areas, not the middle of the desert! These loons are ...
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Buzard said the last time he remembered hearing about a yellow-billed loon in southern Nevada was in the late 1990s at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nye County, northwest of Las Vegas.
The common loon is the official state bird of Minnesota. [44] Mercer, Wisconsin, promotes itself as the "Loon Capital of the World". [45] Henry David Thoreau describes a playful and inspiring acquaintance with a loon on Walden Pond in his book Walden. [46]
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In a study that used mitochondrial and nuclear intron DNA, the black-throated loon was found to be sister to a clade consisting of the Pacific loon and two sister species, the common loon and the yellow-billed loon. The black-throated loon measures about 70 cm (28 in) in length and can weigh anywhere from 1.3 to 3.4 kilograms (2.9 to 7.5 lb).