Vol. 19 // Happy MDW! Experience what it's like to fly through the Alps as a bald eagle 🇺🇸

Here’s some bird photography inspo to kick off your weekend! (via @gamanderlopez)

Found in North America

Hear Their Song

If you’ve ever watched a horror film set in an abandoned lakeside cabin, you’ve probably heard the call of the Common Loon. Their calls can sound a bit like a cross between a dramatic scream and a seagull’s bleat, but their best known sounds are the eerie, drawn-out wails often used as background noise in thrillers or nature flicks.

Common Loons have regal coloring during summer, with a black head and iridescent necklace, and white and black patterning along their bodies. These master fishers are excellent divers and catch and swallow their prey — which is usually small fish like minnows, but sometimes also mollusks and frogs — underwater. But they’re awkward on land and only come ashore to mate and nest. Babies can swim and dive within 2-3 days of birth! 

Fun fact: Loons need a big runway to take off for flight — they need up to a quarter-mile to flap their wings and gather speed for lift-off.

Give a Hoot

Birding bits you should know about this week

Soar
🦅 Bald Eagle in flight
Experience what it’s like to fly above the Alps, through the eyes of an eagle.

Learn
🎥 Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call
Check out all the movies that feature the call of the Common Loon, and learn why.

Enjoy
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Who knows neither Time nor error, and under

Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings

Into shadow.

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