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Gavia immer latin

The name refers to the Minnesota state bird, the Common Loon (Gavia immer).

(A Gavia immer at the Reservoir.)

Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer)

The Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer), is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds.

Great Northern Loons (Gavia immer) frequent the lower reaches of tidal creeks of all Refuge Divisions from late autumn through early spring.

However, one exceptionally large North American Common Loon (Gavia immer), weighed 8 kg (17.6 lb), heavier than any recorded Yellow-billed Loon.

This Upland area is home to waterfowl, such as the common loon (Gavia immer), red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator), as well as other ducks, and geese on the many lakes of the region.

U.S. Agent Gavia Immer (sharing a name with the common loon) is stationed by the U.S. military in a cabin in the woods of the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts.

In the winter of 1865, Irish ichthyologist Harry Blake-Knox claimed to have seen a thresher shark in Dublin Bay use its tail to strike a wounded loon (probably a great northern diver, Gavia immer), which it then swallowed.

In terms of limb length, shape of the hip bones, and position of the hip socket, Hesperornis is particularly similar to the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer), probably exhibiting a very similar manner of locomotion on land and in water.