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 ...

Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and now even on the official state seal. Fireplace mantels across the state sport carved ...

Loons are crash landing in parts of Wisconsin, including one in a cow pasture. Raptor Education Group screengrab Migrating birds are crash landing in Wisconsin in what officials are calling a “loon ...

PELLSTON, Mich. – A pair of common loons on a Northern Michigan lake are doing something scientists rarely get to observe: raising two Canada goose goslings as their own. The unusual arrangement began ...

Dozens of common loons – the mascot bird of the Northwoods – have fallen from the icy, sleeting skies of northern Wisconsin. The “loon fallout” phenomenon across April 19-20 this spring wasn’t just ...

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 ...

Migrating birds are crash landing in Wisconsin in what officials are calling a “loon fallout.” The Raptor Education Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of wild ...