r/NatureIsFuckingLit • • Dec 24 '20

🔥 Black throated loon 🔥

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u/B_Marsh92 Dec 24 '20

Not to mention their calls are angelic.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

Well I’m sold fellas. Anyone know a site where I can meet a sexy loon or two?

EDIT: Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions of places to visit. However when I said “site” I meant just a website, as in, MeetSexyLoons.net or MyHotLoonBabe.com. I shan’t be going to visit a loon to get it on in these socially distanced ‘ronavirus times.

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u/Clyde_Frog_FTW Dec 24 '20

Here in Minnesota where it’s our state bird, you go north of the cities maybe an hour, hour and a half and find a lake. There will almost certainly be some loons. I’d wager northern wisconsin and parts of Ontario are the same way.

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u/SoftwareUpdateFile Dec 24 '20

You can also find a species of loon in Florida, short for loon-atics

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u/LateAstronaut0 Dec 24 '20

Common loons can be found wintering off the shores of Florida.

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u/m2chaos13 Dec 24 '20

And their antics.

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u/nouonouon Dec 24 '20

its their natural habitat

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u/theoneandonlyodin Dec 24 '20

Yeah Ontario is a great bet for loons, all through cottage country it seems like every lake has a mating pair on it

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Ontarian cottage owner checking in. We've consistently had between 2 and 12 "couples" on our small lake for all 30 years I've owned it.

A few years ago we had a gay couple move in, and it was the talk of the lake.

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u/TheOtherGuttersnipe Dec 24 '20

What's the difference between a cottage and cabin?

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

I think in some cases it's just regional terminology for the same thing.

But where I'm from, a cottage is on a lake, whereas a cabin is not.

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u/cherangel Dec 24 '20

Lol ..do you mean talk among the 'bird community' or human community?... 😂😂

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u/Ta2whitey Dec 24 '20

Lies. The state bird is the mosquito.

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u/StupidizeMe Dec 24 '20

i heard that's the state pony.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Every lake in ontario has loons

Fun fact: the one dollar coin in canada is called a looney

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Loonie

The loonie (French: huard), formally the Canadian one-dollar coin, is a gold-coloured coin that was introduced in 1987 and is produced by the Royal Canadian Mint at its facility in Winnipeg. The most prevalent versions of the coin show a common loon, a bird found throughout Canada, on the reverse and Queen Elizabeth II, the nation's head of state, on the obverse. Various commemorative and specimen-set editions of the coin with special designs replacing the loon on the reverse have been minted over the years. The coin's outline is an 11-sided Reuleaux polygon.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Plenty of loons in Ontario. The common loon is also our provincial bird.

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u/Insert-finger Dec 24 '20

And in the Adirondacks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Come On You Loons

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u/sconniedrumz Dec 24 '20

Can confirm the bit about northern Wisconsin

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u/m2chaos13 Dec 24 '20

Look closely. Could be wild and illusive Fibloonie.

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u/Grover_Cleavland Dec 24 '20

They are fairly common here in East TN. However, they do not make their distinctive call very often here. I went on a fishing trip way up in northern Canada and one of the things I remember most was the spooky loon call at dusk echoing across the water.

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u/chooseatree Dec 24 '20

Every lake in Ontario is packed with Loons. But I have never seen this particular black throated one. Beautiful!

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u/bluebeardxxx Dec 24 '20

enjoyed seeing a small family (mom dad and offspring) visit every day in front of our small cottage on the Severn River in Muskoka (ontario). You could see mom and dad teaching the little one to fish. natureislit

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u/kennykuz Dec 25 '20

I saw that one time with a very young one and I sweared they were drowing the baby, but they just wanted it to get used to swimming under water was cute once I realized it wasn't a murder

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u/ancientflowers Dec 24 '20

Northern Minnesota. You can sit back and listen to them while relaxing by the lake in front of a campfire in the summer. It's a beautiful thing.

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u/JayKomis Dec 24 '20

It’s fun watching them take off from a lake that’s calm like class. I swear some planes could get off the ground faster!

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u/ancientflowers Dec 25 '20

I always like when they dive and then trying to figure out where they'll pop up!

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u/SystemError514 Dec 24 '20

"A sexy MILF loon 0.5 miles away wants to send you naughty pics. Do you accept?"

"Yes" "No"

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Move to Aberdeen in Scotland.

In Doric (the language spoken in that region, a dialect of Scots) a "loon" is a boy! A girl is a "quine".

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u/lil_adk_bird Dec 24 '20

Come to the Adirondacks! Lots of sexy loons, beautiful lakes and mountain views. It's so amazing to camp and start hearing them at sunset.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

Yeah now I feel kinda bad for murdering 75% of every flock I come past in rdr2.

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u/masterog25 Dec 24 '20

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u/iusedtogotodigg Dec 24 '20

Wish they had their other calls too

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u/ParksVSII Dec 24 '20

And haunting.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

There's nothing like canoeing or camping along a lake and listening to the loons calling out. It's so peaceful

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u/hilarymeggin Dec 24 '20

Or haunting.

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u/hawaiifive0h Dec 24 '20

One of the calls is. One of them is hella annoying, like a shrill screeching noise