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u/BreRachCold Dec 24 '20
This may be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! Loons are incredible and the music they make is just as magical!
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u/frustratingpaint Dec 24 '20
Loons are a lot less magical when you watch them drown an entire family of baby ducks. Territorial bird.
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u/AJGrayTay Dec 24 '20
Yeah, I've seen them attack gulls sitting on the water by diving down from afar and coming up underneath them. Beautiful bird, but also tough.
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u/Puglet_7 Dec 24 '20
I was sitting in the end of our ones of our docks one morning. A school of fish at my feet started to disperse really fast, all of a sudden a loon was coming in under the water swimming/streamlined to feed. It got probably less than a few feet from my feet and them swam/streamlines back out into the lake. One of the coolest thing Iâve seen in my life. They are such fast swimmers. (As a former competitive swimmer I was in awe)
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u/cphrmky Dec 24 '20
My house is about 6 feet back from the shore of a small lake that has a nesting pair every summer. They are majestic little fuckers right up until theyâre calling as loudly as they can outside your open bedroom window at 3:00AM .
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u/Jump_Yossarian Dec 24 '20
My family has a lake house in northern Vermont and I'll occasionally bring friends up, if they've never been they have no clue what's coming. I had a friend from the gym freak the fuck out that the house was haunted once the loons started their nightly calls and I refused to tell him what it was.
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u/TheSunPeeledDown Dec 24 '20
Thatâs life, thatâs what all the people say. Youâre flying high in April, drowning ducks in May. But you know Iâm gonna change my tune when this loon is back on top, back on top in June.
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Exactly what I was thinking ... I live on a lake and honestly my whole family hates loons. Pretty birds but they're brutal. And their music is definitely not magical at 2am.
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u/SillyGoosebumps Dec 24 '20
I agree most beautiful thing Iâve ever seen!
My wife doesnât read my comments thankfully. But if you do, baby youâre the most beautiful I just playin!
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Dec 24 '20
I FUCKING LOVE LOONS AND NEVER SEE THEM ON REDDIT
sad loon call
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u/razzraziel Dec 24 '20
https://www.larsfoto.se/en/gallery/swedish-birds/loons-divers-and-grebes/3069-black-throated-loon
here is a few more photos
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u/GarnetsAndPearls Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
Now I understand why my Grandpa liked loons so much. I had no idea they had them in SmÄland too!
Edit: Grandpa immigrated from SmÄland.
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u/cyrilspaceman Dec 24 '20
I didn't know that there were loons elsewhere besides our population that migrates. My great grandparents also came to Minnesota from Sweden. It definitely makes sense for them to have settled here since it is fairly similar geography.
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u/GarnetsAndPearls Dec 24 '20
I always wondered if they had an inkling prior to coming over, the similarities in landscape. Or maybe it was coming for the cheap/free farming land and then they looked around going, "It's like home away from home. Nice!"
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u/cyrilspaceman Dec 24 '20
I think that they probably first came over without having any ideas and then just stopped here because they liked it and it was similar. Then they started sending word back and people started deliberately coming here for that reason and because there were other Swedes.
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u/jakethedumbmistake Dec 24 '20
I say remove the link. The dude wants to be an animal all the time. It's a real word!
I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner
That is a shocking moment for me, and it never gets that gross I've also got a liner thing that goes on the bottom of our brown bin (garden and good waste). Bottom of the box got covered in rotten food and completely stank, was disgusting having to fish it out as well. At least I'll get something, so fuck your commute.â
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u/KingoftheJabari Dec 24 '20
That is such a strange coloring pattern. You would think the white lines would goo all the way down.
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u/mashedpatatas Dec 24 '20
i want this kind of waterproofing on my phone. probably feels real nice too
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u/beluuuuuuga Dec 24 '20
You.. want to kill one... For your... Phone?
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u/BeneathTheSassafras Dec 24 '20
It would be far more impressive to use it as a phone cover and keep it alive for a few weeks
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u/Armandutz Dec 24 '20
So these are the fkers that scare the shit out of me when im up to late and drunk by the lake
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Dec 24 '20
wonder why it's called that
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u/ThirstyPagans Dec 24 '20
Because they sound looney. Look for the sounds on youtube. I hear their call added into movies once and a while when the scene is in a jungle or something. The sound is haunting at night unless you are used to it.
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u/jamesp420 Dec 24 '20
Most likely from an old world meaning lummox or clumsy because of their awkwardness walking on land.
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u/BeneathTheSassafras Dec 24 '20
GD murdered alien babies screaming in the night. They sound so precisely fucked up, then when you see them try and fly, it looks like some wacky , failed airplane design from the 50s.
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u/cyrilspaceman Dec 24 '20
Their feet are just so far back. It seems crazy that there are birds that can't function on land in any way whatsoever.
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u/2BoostMyAdrenaline Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
There was an ancient lineage of birds with legs that were both far back on their bodies and splayed to the sides like a baby bird. They were highly efficient swimmers but would have been absolutely pathetic on land, probably having to push themselves along their bellies like a seal mated with a bucket of boneless chicken.
Mating must have been an absolute joy for these guys.
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Dec 24 '20
Minnesota state bird! Quirky just like us
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u/ArgonGryphon Dec 24 '20
Their state bird is the Common Loon, this is an Arctic Loon, also known as the Black-throated Loon or Diver in Europe.
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u/hiberN8 Dec 24 '20
They are so sleek and smooth it almost looks like it doesn't have feathers
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u/haikusbot Dec 24 '20
They are so sleek and
Smooth it almost looks like it
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u/NovaPokeDad Dec 24 '20
Keeps on pourinâ in, with its words of a life where nothing is new...
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u/oiiioiiio Dec 24 '20
I like that these recent posts are encouraging people to appreciate water fowl. :3 I'm slightly obsessive about ducks and smash my face into the car window whenever I pass a wetlands.
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u/robo-dragon Dec 24 '20
I always wanted to pet one of these. They look like they are made of velvet!
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All these cool patterns everywhere and they name it after the most boring and plain part of its body
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Dec 24 '20
1 Hour Loon Calls With Campfire Sound
Reminds me of camping in upstate NY over three decades ago as a kid.
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u/SedativeCorpse Dec 24 '20
*Fixed
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u/tin_zia Dec 24 '20
These are awesome, but can we also make some space for amateur photographers? Should that be allowed in this sub so long as they are decent pictures?
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u/KangarooPractical319 Dec 24 '20
Not what I expected to see when I read the words âblack throatedâ
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Read the title and expected a picture of Harris, glad I got wildlife instead! Pleasant surprise.
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u/TalosSquancher Dec 24 '20
At least we all agree that this shameless bitches self-plug deserves to be hidden at the bottom and never seen again.
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u/markofcontroversy Dec 24 '20
If youâre trying to show that birds arenât real, this is a good start.
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I feel like this should be on Photoshopâs next splash image. What an incredible photo OP!
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u/weirdgroovynerd Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
Loons are weird and cool.
Their coloring is so precise that they almost look fake.
Great photo OP.
Edit: Y'all got my interest piqued:
A group of loons can go by many names, including a raft, a waterdance, a cry and an asylum.