Claim to fame: Many people know that “loon” is a term for a person acting crazy or foolish. The calls of the loon are also symbols of the outdoors beauty of the northern United States and Canada.

A migratory diver of the loon family, the common loon (Gavia immer) has been important to people living in the Great Lakes region for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. MinnPost’s journalists are ...

Montana’s loon population winters along the West Coast, between Puget Sound near Seattle south to Los Angeles. The bigger the loon, the shorter their migration, so the largest birds live closest 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 ...