Why Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird, and how its haunting call became the sound of summer lakes.

Loons are water birds with wolf-like calls and incredible diving skills. Learn about the five species, their habitats and why ...

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 to eventually get into the air. Did ...

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 ...

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 ...

GERMFASK, MI - Michigan’s best-known wildlife mom has done it again, hatching chicks #43 and #44 last week at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula. This makes the loon, known as ...