https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Loon/id

Scientific:
Gavia immer

Order:
Gaviiformes
Family:
Gaviidae
Genus:
Gavia

English: Great Northern Loon, Great Northern Divers

Danish : Islom

Greenlandic : Tudlik, Tulik

Length: 26.0-35.8 in (66-91 cm)

Weight: 88.2-215.2 oz (2500-6100 g)

Wingspan: 40.9-51.6 in (104-131 cm)

Fernand DEROUSSEN, XC138264. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/138264.

References

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018)   Gavia immer. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=7E02237895784E9A

Evers, David C., James D. Paruk, Judith W. McIntyre and Jack F. Barr. 2010. Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Sibley, David Allen. 2014. The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A Knopf, New York.

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