Not long ago, I was watching "Game of Thrones," the megahit HBO show set in the fictional world of Westeros, when I heard a sound I knew well: the long, high call of the common loon. I'd heard it a ...

Across the sunset stillness of a deserted northern lake, the unearthly wail of the common loon completed a lifetime memory. Loons were calling and the water was like glass. I was scuba diving in Lake ...

"That's it!" I exclaimed, tossing the remote control on the couch. "One more misplaced loon and I'm going to ..." - well, write an article. The straw that broke the camel's back was the movie "Platoon ...

Just over a month ago, as I was walking from my small office back to the house along a woodland trail bordered by the wetland, I heard the unmistakable call of a loon. The voice of the loon moved past ...

With open water, the lakes area iconic loons are once again back and their call is a sound of summer. The Minnesota DNR reports the common loon has four calls. The tremolo, which sounds a bit like ...