After consulting a couple of field guides and hearing from a couple of folks way more familiar with MN migrants than I am, the loon I reported seeing a few days ago is likely NOT an Arctic Loon. Pacific Loon? Maybe. Common Loon still in its gray plummage (in mid-July)? Maybe. Other ideas would be welcome:
Size of an adult Common Loon Profile of an adult Common Loon Swam on surface and dived/resurfaced like Common Loon Gray head and body Neck: white down front, gray down sides and back Possible red streak down side of neck between the white and gray No checkerboard markings on back. No vocalizations. Too far away in the available light to ascertain beak or eye color. No photo - sorry.... Tim Stratton Duluth ________________________________ From: marimbafan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 10:51 PM Subject: [mou-net] Arctic Loon in Duluth Don't know how unusual this sighting might be, and I apologize for the late post, but this past Sunday morning I watched an Arctic Loon busily swimming and diving very near the beach behind the Limnology Center in Duluth, just west of the Lester River's current into Lake Superior. Tim Stratton Duluth ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
