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7/23/2010
Swan Lake, Washington, U.S.A.
Gavia immer, juvenile.
Found in the lake.
Kingdom: Animalia (animals)
Phylum: Chordata (chordates)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (vertebrates)
Class: Aves (birds)
Order: Gaviiformes (loons and divers)
Family: Gaviidae (loons or divers)
Genus: Gavia (loons)
Species: immer
(Gavia immer) Common Loon
Gavia immer
This loon treated us to some nice close-up views from the pier at Pillar Point. It was 73 degrees, sunny and gorgeous by the water yesterday. So welcome after all of the cold and wet. OMG , we are SO spoiled here in CA!
Holyhead harbour on Anglesey is a great place to get good close views of Great Northern Divers in winter. A place I visit regularly and had the good fortune to see this bird catch a large Common Shore Crab, which it soon dismembered and swallowed. The only place they breed is in the Western Palearctic is Iceland and surely we have too many winter visitors to all be Icelandic birds, Are the numbers swollen by birds from the New World where they are known as Common Loons?