Late morning on a Monday, March 14, I received an e-mail notifying me and others of an unusual bird sighting along the Mississippi River. The e-mail indicated that about an hour earlier, Brainerd area ...

The common loon is an uncommon bird, one of five loon species sharing a long history, and believed to be most closely related to — wait for it — penguins. The other four loons are Pacific, Arctic, red ...

21.12 x 28.88 in. (53.6 x 73.4 cm.) ...

Offshore wind farms in the North Sea reduce the population of loons –fish-eating aquatic birds also known as divers – by 94% within a one-kilometre zone, according to new research published in ...

Red-throated loons are known for their superior fishing skills, but little has been known about the migratory patterns of this aquatic bird in eastern North America. A University of Maine study is the ...

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 ...