Wings over Water: Discerning Loon species by Flight and Plumage

Dessi Sieburth

Tue, Apr 09, 2024 7:00 PM

Loons are a notoriously difficult group to identify due to similarity in plumage among species, variation within the same species, and general difficulty of obtaining good views.

Join Dessi as he discusses the identification of our three regularly occurring loon species (Common, Pacific, and Red-throated), as well as the two rarer species (Yellow-billed, Arctic).

The livestream can be found at our YouTube channel.