Loons
Order: Gaviiformes Family: Gaviidae
The Loons migrate to Korea during the winter months. They are carnivores and some species can dive more than 200 feet below the surface of the water to search for food.
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Arctic Loon Gavia arctica
- Pacific LoonGavia pacifica' '
- Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii' '
Read more about this topic: List Of Non-passerine Birds Of Korea
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“At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)