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 NT    Yellow-billed Loon* Id (Atlas):
    Gavia adamsii Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Loon, White-billed Diver

Family
Gaviidae (Loons/divers)

Size
71 - 100 cm
Wingspan: 150 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gray, 1859)

Range (Guide)
Belgium (NB), Canada (P), China (mainland), Denmark (P), Finland (NB), Japan, Mexico, North Korea, Norway (NB) (P), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (P), Russia (European) (B), South Korea, Sweden (NB), USA (B).

Vagrant to Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska), Czech Republic, Estonia, Faroe Islands, France (NB), Germany (NB), Greenland, Ireland, Italy, Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, Poland, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (NB), Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Holarctic, breeding mainly along coasts of Arctic Ocean as far northern as c. 78° N. Winters in coastal waters of north-western and north-eastern Pacific and also off north-western Norway.
 
Population
Estimated population is 16,000 - 32,000 (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (11)...)

 
Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) [XC185362]
     by Stein \u00d8. Nilsen from Point Barrow, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States (song)

 
Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) [XC838060]
     by Seth Beaudreault (Toolik Field Station) from near 'Island Lake', North Slope, Alaska, United States (song)

Subspecies
Considered to form superspecies with Common Loon (Gavia immer).

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) - 10 files


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