Listener Kathleen Herring is one of many writers who suggested that the ultimate Summer Sound is that of loons on a northern lake. Sponsor Message ROBERT SIEGEL, host: We've been giving you a chance ...

Bill Gassman has run the loon cam for about a decade, spending his spring and summer giving viewers a look at the private lives of loons. On a busy day, the corner of YouTube run by the New ...

A soft short contact call between birds. Adults will hoot to each other, and parents will hoot to chicks, enabling them to keep in touch with the whereabouts of the other birds. A long, one, two or ...

CROSSLAKE — Loon callers across Minnesota are invited to bring their best wail, hoot, tremolo or yodel to the Star of the North Loon Calling Contest. While these four calls of the loon are sounds ...

Dave Evers kneels in the bow of a small idling motorboat, surveying the calm lake in front of him with binoculars. It’s 9:30 p.m. and with the exception of a few stars in the sky and a ring of faint ...

Only rarely does someone glimpse – or hear – a loon on one of our larger local lakes, most typically during migration season in spring or fall, when some of these birds that we associate with the ...

On a busy day, the corner of YouTube run by the New Hampshire’s Loon Preservation Committee gets hundreds of visitors. Viewers come for the close-up views of loons: striking black and white feathers, ...