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Red-throated Loon Sounds

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Norðurland eystra, May 29, 2018Recorded by Bob McGuire | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, July 28, 2007Recorded by Gerrit Vyn | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 14, 2006Recorded by Michael Andersen | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 14, 2006Recorded by Michael Andersen | Macaulay Library

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Red-throated Loons are mostly quiet in fall and winter but sometimes vocalize on calm days in late winter and early spring, mostly a rapid, quacking. On the breeding grounds they also make a remarkable variety of wails, coos, croaks, and a prehistoric-sounding gayorworrk, dubbed the “plesiosaur call” by researchers.

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Loons(Order: Gaviiformes, Family: Gaviidae)

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