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Participants bought a square (and received a free square) on a white tarp on the ground at the Pine River dam. Each round, ...
The second annual Minnesota Loons & Lakes Festival, organized by the National Loon Center, will be held Friday-Saturday, June 20-21, celebrating Minnesota’s loons and lakes with a weekend of events ...
The Loon Lake Mountains rise above Duck Pond. Photo by Phil Brown Duck Pond This 60-acre jewel sits just a few feet from the road, but paddling past its bog mats and gazing up at the Loon Lake ...
Yeah, your Donald Duck not only hates the environments that make Jewish students’ studies difficult, but also logic. If not, why should he freeze federal grants that more than 200,000 students benefit ...
Loon-like ancient bird might be modern duck's ancestor By Wu Chong (China Daily) Updated: 2006-06-16 05:55 If it dives like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck and flies like a duck, is it a duck?
A: It’s not surprising that you’re eager to see wood ducks return to your lake, as these are some of the most beautiful waterfowl in North America, and really, the world. By April, these ducks ...
Loons, he said, are worth about $1,500 of his time — but the generosity of the community, and his time, is priceless. Even better: it was his first time at the breakfast, where for years his ducks and ...
The deep glacial lakes are perfect for the loon, which can deftly dive to 100 feet or more to grab its prey of mostly fish. This species also needs a large enough lake so that it can run across it ...
Vegavis was an early waterfowl, a group that also includes ducks and geese. Vegavis appears to have been ecologically specialised to pursue fish and other prey underwater in a shallow marine ...
Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates that it dove for its dinner.
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull ...