Loons
Order: Gaviiformes. Family: Gaviidae
Loons, known as Divers in Europe, are group of aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Europe. They are the size of a large duck or small goose, which they somewhat resembles in shape when swimming, but they completely unrelated to these waterfowl. There are 5 species worldwide and 3 species which occurs in Hong Kong.
- Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica (A)
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata (A)
- Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Hong Kong
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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)