Seraphine, you’re on the right track. The Legislature named the common loon as Minnesota’s state bird in 1961 in large part because it’s so distinctive, with its white-spangled black plumage ...

What they didn’t know was that they may have gotten an exclusive photo with Las Vegas’ hottest new celebrity — the yellow-billed loon, a migratory bird that has taken up residence in the ...

Marilyn Weiler treated the Monday Senior Lunch Bunch to an hour of curious and humorous bird sayings and expressions on Feb.

named the popular bird its 2025 Bird of the Year. To celebrate the loon’s coronation, we asked Ali Gilbertson of Happy Hours — a local secondhand clothing and home decor shop — to curate a ...