Common loon

Like, like they're on the loony, you know, like this is, this is our bird, but not everyone has had a chance to experience being around a loon.

So Matt, could you start us off by telling people where common loons are found and what they look like?

Uh, so the common loon, it's, it's really our most iconic aquatic bird in Canada.

Uh, Most people, I would say, would recognize them more for their call than their look.

You know, there's something I find really fascinating about yodels in particular, loon yodels.

They recognize each other's yodels.

So to put that in context, like you can use, you can record a male, particular male common loons yodel and play it back.

So you play a recording of the yodel of an established local male and nothing much happens.

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Finally, Freddy Trujillo, Common Loon, loons on the Canadian money.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

It takes you in a new direction sometimes.

And you know, I like, like on the common loon, you know, it was, You know, this friend of mine, I just gave him an opportunity to kind of, you know, start.

He came up with, like, kind of this idea of, like, the loon being like a pachuco, you know, like that slick back hair or whatever, you know.

Shelley Haasman Kadish, WSHU News.

This is WSHU's bird song break and with spooky season officially here, we're highlighting some more hauntingly beautiful bird songs this month, starting with the Common Loon.

This water bird will be migrating to our region for the winter, but you won't hear that signature call.

They reserve it for the summer.

Take a breath, listen, and let nature remind you to slow down.

This has been WSHU's Birdsong Break featuring the Common Loon.

Special thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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