Yellow-billed loon

phylum	Chordata	The yellow-billed loon (Gavia) is the largest member of the loon family. Breeding adults have a black head, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle. Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white. The main distinguishing feature from great northern loon is the longer straw-yellow bill which, because the culmen is straight, appears slightly uptilted. It breeds in the Arctic and winters mainly at sea along the coasts of the northern Pacific Ocean and northwestern Norway; it also sometimes overwinters on large inland lakes. This species, like all divers, is a specialist fish-eater, catching its prey underwater. Its call is an eerie wailing, lower pitched than the common loon. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Loons
clade	Diapsida
Class	Aves
order	Gaviiformes
family	Gaviidae
genus	Gavia
species	G. adamsii

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