Minnesota's Prairie Lakes are strangely quiet since summer inhabitants have left early. It's too bad. October provides a soul-restoring peacefulness, whether one's just hiking, fishing, viewing fall ...

Minnesota Loon Restoration Project is still going strong and tracking the effectiveness of artificial nests in Hubbard County ...

GANSEVOORT — Common loons are the most striking creature of Adirondack Park lore. Its haunting, drawn-out wails are synonymous with the Park’s lakes. Black and white speckling and red dots resembling ...

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 ...

SENEY, MICH. -- Spring is a time of hookups and breakups for the common loons that return to breed at Michigan’s Seney National Wildlife Refuge, and this season already has seen its fair share of ...

To heft their bodies into the air, loons need a long runway, much like an airplane getting ready for a flight. These loons require as much as 600 feet of open water to eventually get into the air. Did ...