Yellow-billed Loon (Plongeon à bec blanc)
Gavia adamsii
Summary 7
The Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the White-billed Diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family. Breeding adults have a black head, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle. Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white. The main distinguishing feature from Great Northern Loon is the longer straw-yellow bill which, because the culmen is straight, appears slightly uptilted.
Range 8
N Eurasia and n North America; winters to n Baja California.
Statut et abondance 9
Status : Ve #
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No Localité Dates Référence
- lac Saint-Louis (Dorval) ?/11/1949 David (1979)
lac Guillaume-Delisle avant 1981 BO 26:140
sans détails; mention non-confirméelac Stein (Portneuf) 07/06/1986 Photo NMC; QO 2(1):25
photo publiée
Sources and Credits
- (c) Guy Monty, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5250141723_17c8fde07d.jpg
- (c) Flickr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8454667042_e7f97762ac_o.jpg
- (c) Guy Monty, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5081/5250141493_aa8b6b6b6f.jpg
- (c) Guy Monty, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5041/5250141279_b4e704a189.jpg
- (c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3099/3173220518_aa323810ec_o.jpg
- (c) Tim Lenz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/59323989@N00/3173220518
- Adapted by Roger Simard from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavia_adamsii
- Adapted by Roger Simard from a work by (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/25010978
- (c) Roger Simard, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
