Jul. 20—MOULTONBOROUGH — Loons. They're New Hampshire's iconic water bird, their closest cousin is the penguin (they're unrelated to ducks), and their hauntingly beautiful call stirs something ...

It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila Johnston, listening ...

A pair of common loons appeared regularly for several years on a lake about 120 miles north of the Twin Cities when we lived there 20 years ago. The birds faithfully arrived each spring as soon as the ...

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 ...

Dec. 23—Biologists rescued two iced-in loons from Horace Lake in Weare and Franklin Pierce Lake in Antrim recently. Loons need up to a quarter of a mile runway of open water on a calm day to take off.

For three decades, David Johnson has guided nature lovers in early spring to northern Illinois lakes to hear the eerie yodeling of hundreds of common loons. Within the next 30 years, however, there ...

In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New ...

SEELEY LAKE - Entrenched in nesting season, the loons that grace more than 30 lakes try not to attract attention to themselves, but when they do - oh, what a show! "Go up to Lake Alva in the morning, ...