Common Loon Images, Facts and Information:
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- Common Loons are large, white spotted loons with black upperparts, white underparts, thick black bills, red eyes and dark green-black heads. In winter adults have white mottled underparts. throats and chins, dark upperparts and gray bills.
- Common Loons are migratory. They breed from Alaska and northern Canada south to Washington, Montana, Massachusetts, and in Greenland and Iceland. The spend winters in the Great Lakes region, the Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The preferred habitat of Common Loons are forested lakes and rivers.
- Common Loons eat mostly fish and crustaceans.
- Common Loons lay 1 to 3 eggs which hatch in 26 to 31 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of loons can be called a “raft”, “asylum”, or “cry” of loons.
- Common Loons can live to be around 30 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Common Loon photos.
Common Loon resting in calm water
Title: Common Loon resting in calm water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/6/2023
Urban Common Loon in spring
Title: Urban Common Loon in spring
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/6/2023
Spring Common Loon and snowy reflections
Title: Spring Common Loon and snowy reflections
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/6/2023
Spring Common Loon in loon-like habitat
Title: Spring Common Loon in loon-like habitat
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/6/2023
Common Loon and reflections on the water
Title: Common Loon and reflections on the water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/6/2023
Spring Common Loon on calm blue water
Title: Spring Common Loon on calm blue water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/6/2023
Migrating Common Loon on the Bear River
Title: Migrating Common Loon on the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2020
Autumn Common Loon on migration
Title: Autumn Common Loon on migration
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2020
Common Loon floating on the Bear River
Title: Common Loon floating on the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2020
Common Loon on the Bear River
Title: Common Loon on the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2020
Nonbreeding adult/immature Common Loon on the Bear River
Title: Nonbreeding adult/immature Common Loon on the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2020
Common Loon in breeding plumage
Title: Common Loon in breeding plumage
Location: Deer Creek Reservoir, Wasatch County, Utah
Date: 5/2/2014
Common Loon in nonbreeding plumage in the Gulf of Mexico
Title: Common Loon in nonbreeding plumage in the Gulf of Mexico
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 3/6/2009