Birds of the World

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Genus: Gavia (5 species)


Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) Near Threatened Range: NA, PAL: Arctic nw Russia from Novaya Zemlya to Chukotka Pen.; nw, n Alaska and n Canada to Nunavut (ec Canada) Lower Castaic Lake, Castaic, California, USA
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Black-throated Loon (Gavia arctica) Range: PAL, NA: Arctic to temperate n, c Eurasia and far w Alaska Farmoor Reservoir, England
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Common Loon (Gavia immer) Range: NA, PAL: w, se Greenland, Iceland; subarctic to temperate n North America: w Alaska mainland to n tier of contiguous USA, across subarctic Canada to s Baffin I. and New England Blue Sea Lake, Quebec, Canada
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Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica) Range: NA, PAL: high Arctic to subarctic: Yana and Indigirka rivers e to Chukotka (nc, ne Siberia), Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia), Alaska, wc British Columbia, and n Canada to Baffin I. and James Bay (ne, se Canada) Barrow, Alaska, United States
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Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) Range: NA, PAL: high Arctic to subarctic: sw, se Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., n British Isles, n Scandinavia, Svalbard (n of Norway), n Russia to Chukotka Pen., Kamchatka and Sakhalin and s to Lake Baikal (e Russia); Aleutian Is., Alaska mainland to nw British Columbia Nome, Alaska, United States
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