#0795 · 🐦 birds

Arctic Loon

🇳🇱 Parelduiker ·Gavia arctica

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Aleksandr Tolchkov · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Владимир Панкратов · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Volker Heinrich · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © alexey_nesmelov · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Евгений Александрович · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Christopher Lindsey · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © kulyabin67 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Евгений Попов · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-throated loon ( Gavia arctica ), also known as the Arctic loon and the black-throated diver , is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere, primarily breeding in freshwater lakes in northern Europe and Asia. It winters along sheltered, ice-free coasts of the north-east Atlantic Ocean and the eastern and western Pacific Ocean. This loon was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It has two subspecies. It was previously considered to be the same species...

base stats

NL sightings 26iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,752iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).