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 ...

A rare Yellow-billed Loon, a bird that only occasionally ventures south of Canada, was being treated at International Bird Rescue in San Pedro after being found tangled in fishing line near the ...

Tourists circled the Las Vegas Strip’s impressive Fountains of Bellagio on Tuesday, taking selfies against the lush background of the resort. What they didn’t know was that they may have gotten an ...

The bird, banded in 1998, lived through an expansive loon conservation effort that boosted the population and helped provide key insights about the species. It’s a day to take action and support 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 ...

A yellow-billed loon was spotted hanging out on the Las Vegas Strip this week, far from its usual habitat in Alaska and the high Arctic. Rachel Aston / Las Vegas Review-Journal / Tribune News Service ...

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 ...

Photographer Chris Whitty recently found himself at the right place at the right time when he captured an image of a rare white loon. At the end of the breeding season, adult loons molt — ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. A few years ago, ...