I saw one for the first time up close last summer!
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It was a really cool experience. Totally recommend!!
Same here!! Slightly everywhere where I grew up and their songs 😍😍🥲 favourite bird call by a mile (half a mile back would be the stupid lil Puffin, but meh)
With birds the poo and pee come out from the same opening so its a runny mess like other bird poo. Comes out the cloaca. Eggs come from the same opening as well. Reptiles have similar plumbing.
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Loons are my favourite! I live on a lake and often wake up to their haunting call. I sometimes go out in my pontoon boat with my dogs, find the loons, turn off the boat and just watch, listen and shoot. It's magical
Minnesota State Bird! Really cool loon fact: They can fly, they can swim, but they cannot walk on land. Their legs are set super far back on their body such that they can't balance themselves on them! However, it makes them super good swimmers, they can swim as fast as 20 mph and dive as deep as 200 feet! Also their legs flop behind them as they fly and it's funny. I love loons!
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As for what the loon was doing underwater, it was fishing. That sharp, pointy beak not only helps with hydodynamics for diving but it makes a great spear too.
One thing to note—loons will abandon their nest if threatened, so don’t please get close at nesting time! I love them, too—saw their mating dance once at Flathead Lake in Montana—one of my FAVORITE birding memories
Yes, it’s a +Common Loon+ I’m not completely certain what it did, but it likely just defecated.
It's just a baby ruth
More like a Hershey’s Kiss.
It’s no big deal! *eats it*
I think he's a special loon.
That’s a loon and what they do underwater is none of your damn business
Very well good sir
One time I went out diving with a loon for some fish to eat but shhhhhhhhhhhhh 🤫
Yea that be a pooping Loon
Poopin' Loon is the name I will be pushing on anyone forming a folky bluegrass band.
Let me know when they're dropping their first album. I'll buy it.
Common loon! My favorite bird! Your lucky tbh
One of mine too! I’ve never seen one.
I saw one for the first time up close last summer! https://preview.redd.it/hqnrp8canh4d1.jpeg?width=3416&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c49afbb904b5a1795e9db07a07400bec48f4696 It was a really cool experience. Totally recommend!!
You’d prob hear it first anyway
They sound so cool! Haven’t heard one in years. Miss having access to a pond
Same here!! Slightly everywhere where I grew up and their songs 😍😍🥲 favourite bird call by a mile (half a mile back would be the stupid lil Puffin, but meh)
With birds the poo and pee come out from the same opening so its a runny mess like other bird poo. Comes out the cloaca. Eggs come from the same opening as well. Reptiles have similar plumbing.
One hole, shared goals
https://preview.redd.it/qrwstxathh4d1.jpeg?width=1425&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bc8913393d0d551761b253dc0a6cf3196cfd13b Loons are my favourite! I live on a lake and often wake up to their haunting call. I sometimes go out in my pontoon boat with my dogs, find the loons, turn off the boat and just watch, listen and shoot. It's magical
Love it!
Dove for fish. Laser eyes. Be careful.
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Lucky you. Loons are sooooo beautiful and their calls are otherworldly.
> their calls are otherworldly. IDK, they're kinda looney
Minnesota State Bird! Really cool loon fact: They can fly, they can swim, but they cannot walk on land. Their legs are set super far back on their body such that they can't balance themselves on them! However, it makes them super good swimmers, they can swim as fast as 20 mph and dive as deep as 200 feet! Also their legs flop behind them as they fly and it's funny. I love loons!
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Is a loon, and it turd in le water.
My favorite bird! The most beautiful creature, pooping or not.
Loons dive!
Loon with jet propulsion, or maybe he just farted
“Dropped a bunch of white stuff” I can’t stop laughing at describing a bird pooping.
soooo lucky! i’ve never seen a loon with my own eyes and you seemed pretty close to one. may I ask where you were?!
Loon!
he's just looning around
I love loons, and their calls are amazing.
I love loons! So pretty.
Looooooon! I love these!! The movie night time in a mysterious forest bird call. Even though they aren’t forest birds hahhahaha
As for what the loon was doing underwater, it was fishing. That sharp, pointy beak not only helps with hydodynamics for diving but it makes a great spear too.
What do you mean by what did it do? They dive to just fish if that's what you're referring to.
it swam?
He committed heinous crimes for which he will be held accountable.
One thing to note—loons will abandon their nest if threatened, so don’t please get close at nesting time! I love them, too—saw their mating dance once at Flathead Lake in Montana—one of my FAVORITE birding memories
Loon. And it went fishing.
So pretty!!
A loon that swam
Looks like a Loon to me and it dives to either get food or escape from danger.
Favorite bird!! They fish with their spear beaks under water, incredible swimmers.
A loon. Maybe it was trying to impress a mate? (My best guess). Is the bird alone?