A pair of common loons appeared regularly for several years on a lake about 120 miles north of the Twin Cities when we lived there 20 years ago. The birds faithfully arrived each spring as soon as the ...

ELK RAPIDS, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The nonprofit organization Paddle Antrim is encouraging paddlers keep their distance from common loons, as the birds are currently in their nesting season. The ...

ANTRIM COUNTY — Paddle Antrim is asking the public to help protect Common Loons during their nesting season. Loons, considered a threatened species in Michigan, breed in various locations along the ...

Jul. 30—Around the early 1980s, lakes in Montana began buzzing with the increasing noise of boats and motorized personal watercraft. While people were having fun in the sun, they were unknowingly ...

One misty day in mid-December, a friend and I walked the little Fish Creek Trail. At the side of the pond, a small gray bird was bobbing up and down on a gray rock — a dipper! A bit later, we saw it ...

“Now is that sweet unwritten moment when all things are possible, are just begun. The little tree is not quite leafed. The mate not yet chosen. For the rambler in the woods all that he can find in ...

Q: A group of eight loons, all appearing to be adults, suddenly showed up in late July at our lake in north central Minnesota. They were swimming in a close-knit group, and we’ve never seen anything ...

SENEY, MICH. -- Spring is a time of hookups and breakups for the common loons that return to breed at Michigan’s Seney National Wildlife Refuge, and this season already has seen its fair share of ...