This column has a soundtrack, and you might know the one. Imagine yourself in the North Woods on a summer night, next to a clear, quiet lake. Now listen for the haunting calls of a common loon ...

For those that have spent time on the many lakes of the northern United States and Canada, a loon's call is one of those magical sounds that can put a chill down your spine. The good news for ...

Not long ago, I was watching "Game of Thrones," the megahit HBO show set in the fictional world of Westeros, when I heard a sound I knew well: the long, high call of the common loon. I'd heard it a ...

A flock of people, not birds, helped this town's Main Street fill with the sound of loons Saturday. Competitors showed off their best hoots, wails and yodels in a loon-calling contest, part of the ...

Common Loons are a year-round New England bird. You won't see them at the same place in the summer and winter, but they are true to our region. In the summer, head to the northern New England lakes ...

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 ...

Perhaps more than any other bird the Common Loon is the quintessential New England bird. Its voice carries for miles among the remote lakes and ponds on which it nests in the middle and northern parts ...

Driving south from St. John’s, Newfoundland, on pot-holed highway 10, I came to the reservoir that serves as the water supply for the area. The Atlantic Ocean was little more than a stone’s-throw to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loons are water birds with haunting calls and expert diving skills. Five distinct loon species are adapted to various northern and Arctic habitats. Loons indicate healthy lakes but face threats from ...