Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Piper spends his summer mornings on "loon time." The Chapman University biology professor and his team move across the ...

Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and now even on the official state seal. Fireplace mantels across the state sport carved ...

Scores of Red-throated Loons fly out of Deception Pass in northwest Washington. Birds nourish us with surprise and delight through bright days and dark, in fair weather or foul, across all seasons.

MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the stillness ...