I enjoyed an early morning fishing trip on a beautiful lake last week, using only my quiet electric trolling motor. Using my onboard electronics, I slowly cruised around the lake searching my favorite ...

Q: A group of eight loons, all appearing to be adults, suddenly showed up in late July at our lake in north central Minnesota. They were swimming in a close-knit group, and we’ve never seen anything ...

Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird in 1961 because lawmakers and bird experts agreed that no other animal ...

Jul. 30—Around the early 1980s, lakes in Montana began buzzing with the increasing noise of boats and motorized personal watercraft. While people were having fun in the sun, they were unknowingly ...

SENEY, MICHIGAN - ABJ, the world’s oldest common male loon, touched down in the Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Northern Michigan this past weekend, researchers announced. The return of this beloved ...

Intrepid volunteers needed for summer survey. MAINE — Mainers might not be thinking about summer just yet, but Common Loons will start to appear on lakes and ponds shortly after the ice melts, so ...

A pair of the oldest known common loons in the world have returned to a national wildlife refuge in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for the summer, federal officials said. The male, called "ABJ," and the ...

Since 1983, Mainers have fanned out across lakes and ponds across the state on the third Saturday in July to help count the Common Loon. The results from this summer's 42nd annual loon tally are in, ...