What is Common loon?
{{Taxobox | name = Great Northern Diver | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | image =Commonloonudfs.jpg | image_width = 250px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Aves]] | ordo = [[Gaviiformes]] | familia = [[Gaviidae]] | genus = ''[[Gavia]]'' | species = '''''G. immer''''' | binomial = ''Gavia immer'' | binomial_authority = ([[Morten Thrane Brunnich|Brunnich]], [[1764]]) }} The '''great Northern diver''' or '''common loon''' is a [[bird]]. It belongs to the [[diver (family)|diver]] family of birds. Adult birds are between 70 and 90 cm in length, and have wingspans of 1.20 metres to 1.50 metres. The Great Northern Loon breeds in [[North America]], [[Greenland]], [[Iceland]], and [[Scotland]]. This [[species]] winters on sea coasts or on large lakes of south [[Europe]] and the [[United States]], and south to northwestern areas of [[Africa]].<ref name=BTO>{{cite web|title=Great Northern Diver Gavia immer|url=http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/results/bob40.htm|work=Divers|publisher=British Trust for Orinthology|accessdate=12 August 2012}}</ref> [[File:Gavia immer -Marshfield, Vermont, USA -flying-8 (5).jpg|left|alt=|thumb|Flying in Vermont, USA]] [[File:Gavia immer MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.36.4.jpg|thumb|left| ''Gavia immer'']] [[File:Common Loon (Gavia Immer).webm|thumb |left|Gavia immer]] This species, like all divers, is a specialist [[fish]]-eater. It catches its prey underwater, diving as deep as 200 feet (60&nbsp;m). Freshwater diets include [[pike (fish)|pike]], [[perch]], [[Centrarchidae|sunfish]], [[trout]], and [[bass (fish)|bass]]; salt-water diets consist oinclude [[Sebastes|rock fish]], [[flounder]], [[Brown trout|sea trout]], and [[herring]]. The female lays 1 to 3 [[Egg (biology)|eggs]] on a hollowed-out mound of dirt and vegetation very close to [[water]]. Both [[parents]] build the [[bird nest|nest]], sit on the egg or eggs, and feed the young. It is the state bird of [[Minnesota]], a [[U.S. state]], and as of 2024, also appears on its [[Seal of Minnesota|seal]]. ==