The American Birding Association has named the common loon its 2025 “bird of the year.” The national honor bestowed upon the official state bird of Minnesota earlier this month confirms what ...

St. Paul International Airport when he heard the yodel of the state bird echoing through the baggage claim area, just before a carousel started to turn. “This is something very Minnesota and local,” ...

Wing” hooted from the back of a van parked in a Main Street lot in downtown Saranac Lake Friday morning as a quartet of ...

And boy oh boy, the cry of a loon when you’re out at night with the dogs and you hear the bastard calling across the dark slough – a sound like something lost and lonesome and stark gone crazy in a ...

It's all part of the annual Laskiainen, a Finnish festival that celebrates the changing of the seasons, observes traditions ...

From left: A loon that washed up on a Glencoe beach in December died after ingesting a lead fishing sinker; lead pellets are seen in an X-ray of a Canada goose at the DuPage Wildlife Conservation ...