It’s nesting season in Northern Michigan for the beloved common loon. After our inland lakes have thawed, the unofficial bird of the North—the beloved common loon—returns to our waters. By May, loon ...

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 few years ago, cormorants decided to make Loon Lake Island their home. However, the birds brought a unique problem with no easy solution. The city of Waseca says bird droppings are destroying the ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — Local wildlife photographer and loon educator Steve Maanum recently captured a winning photo of Minnesota’s beloved state bird. His image of a Big Mantrap Lake loon and a chick on ...

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 ...

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 ...

OTIS — Stay quiet. No sudden moves. It shouldn't even know you're here. Thomas Gregg kayaks through the reservoir toward a marshy island. No other humans in sight. “You’ve got to woo the loon,” he ...

One sunny morning in mid-September, a truck crunched over gravel in a Boonville marshaling yard, a parking lot where National Grid keeps construction equipment used in rebuilding transmission lines.

Photographer Chris Whitty recently found himself at the right place at the right time when he captured an image of a rare white loon. At the end of the breeding season, adult loons molt — ...