Red-throated loon Gavia stellata
Identification Tips:
Length: 17 inches Wingspan: 44 inches
Sexes similar
Immature like basic-plumaged adult, but with less well-defined face pattern
Dark bill ...
Red-throated Loon
Relatives in same Genus
Common Loon (G. immer)
Pacific Loon (G. pacifica) ...
Red-throated Loon: Small loon with scaled gray back and white underparts. Head and sides of neck are gray, throat is dark red, nape is black-and-white striped. Eyes are red. Feeds on fish, dives to 90 feet for them. Direct flight, rapid wing beats.
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Red-throated Loon Sounds ...
Red-throated Loon
Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan)
Status Fairly common transient, uncommon in winter, very rare in summer.
4. Red-throated Loon, Moss Landing
5. Spotted Towhee male sings, Arastadero
6. White-tailed Kite, kiting ...
Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata. Rare in fall, winter, and spring in all regions. Found on lakes, bays, and in the Gulf.
Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica. Rare in winter and spring in all regions. Found on lakes, bays, and in the Gulf.
Red-throated Loon, Gavia stellata
Arctic Loon, Gavia arctica
Pacific Loon, Gavia pacifica
Common Loon, Gavia immer
Yellow-billed Loon, Gavia adamsii ...
Red-throated Loon
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Mallard
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
1 Red-throated Loon
1 Common Loon
1 SOOTY (type) SHEARWATER (clearly a large, dark Sooty-type
Shearwater, but rather distant so the i.d. is presumptive)
950 N. Gannets (a good flight for so late in the season; 90+% adult, ...
The Red-throated Loon is a smaller species with reddish throat.
The Arctic Loon is similar to it, but with a black throat in summer.
Loons are commonly 28 to 36 inches in length. The female is similar
to the male.
GAVIIDAE: Loons Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica) Common Loon (Gavia immer) Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii)
PODICIPEDIDAE: Grebes
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) ...
Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata: Point Lookout, Nassau County, NY, 17 Jan
Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica: whale watching from Newport Harbor, CA, 04 Jan
Common Loon Gavia immer: whale watching from Newport Harbor, CA, 04 Jan ...
Red-throated Diver or Red-throated Loon, Gavia stellata.
Black-throated Diver or Arctic Loon, Gavia arctica.
Pacific Diver or Pacific Loon, Gavia pacifica - sometimes included in G. arctica ...
There are five species of loons: The Red-throated Loon, Pacific Loon, Arctic Loon, Yellow-billed Loon and the Common Loon.
Physical Characters ...
Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata)
(aka Red-throated Loon)
Scotland
The Red-throated Diver breeds in very high latitudes round the Arctic in both Eurasia and North America. It also breeds in north-west Scotland.
THE RED-THROATED DIVER.
[Red-throated Loon.]
COLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Linn.
[Gavia stellata.] ...
This is the only family in this order.
Species in this family:
Common Loon (Gavia immer)
Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) ...
In winter the head and neck are darker than the Red-throated Loon. Common loons migrate in small flocks heading to the coast. In flight the head is lower than the body. The wingbeats are fast and uninterrupted by gliding.
(80 cm) long; the red-throated loon (G. stellata); and the Arctic loon (G. arctica). Loons are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Gaviiformes, family Gaviidae.
 See also: Loon, Common Loon, Grebe, Plover, Eider
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