#loon

[acorviart]

little loon commission

[bloo-the-dragon]

Robot dad trying to get the high score on candy crush for his mer kids

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[simplified-birds]

Simplified bird #76 - common loon

( requested by @bizartvark )

[hyydraworks]

Channeling loons in spring

[cookiedoves]

common loon 🌾 (commission)

[vintagewildlife]

Common loon By: Stephen J. Krasemann From: Getting to Know Nature's Children: Loons 1985

[emilylorange]

January's #BirdWhisperer subject was the common loon! I feel like I've done a loon before but it was so long ago the file is long since decayed back into electrons. I really liked the simplicity and intensity of this.

Reference photo by Einar Gudmann 🦢

[pallanophblargh]

Almost didn’t manage to draw up anything for pride month, oops! Maybe I should do a pride moth as well (thanks autocorrect)

Didn’t turn out the way I intended, but it doesn’t matter because loons are always a win.

99% watercolor with some colored pencil details that you can’t really see. Gotta get the rust out somehow.

[mushbeast]

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ loons on a date ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

[typhlonectes]

WORLD’S MOST PRODUCTIVE LOON BREEDS AGAIN

Damon McCormick Common Coast Research & Conservation

Fe, the oldest documented Common Loon, hatched two chicks last week with her unbanded I Pool mate; the young were, at minimum, Fe’s 41st and 42nd offspring, extending her record for the species. Most of her prior chicks were begot with her long-term consort, ABJ, during their quarter-century partnership, but since their split in spring 2022, Fe has produced young in two of three breeding seasons. Prior to first coupling with ABJ in 1997, she hatched at least seven chicks with a color-marked male known as Dewlap. The qualifiers attending Fe’s age and lifetime productivity are necessitated by her initial banding in 1990 as a successful mother, when she was at least four years old, the threshold for Common Loon reproduction. As her earlier life history in the 1980s is a mystery, Fe could well be older than 38, and with more than 42 progeny to her credit. One of Fe’s 2024 young perished, from an unknown cause, within days of hatching. Although Refuge loon chicks collectively fare far better in terms of survivorship than their cygnet, gosling and duckling counterparts, of the roughly one in five who do not live to fledge from Seney in the fall, most disappear early, when as downy buoyant corks they are most vulnerable to predators and other antagonists. While not quite the endlessly doting parent that ABJ was, across 35 years of monitoring Fe has – assuming her second chick makes it to autumn – fledged 86% of her offspring. ABJ’s parenting is referenced in the past tense owing to a lack of reproduction since 2020. After a failed nesting attempt on E West last summer with a female two decades his junior, ABJ was evicted from that territory this spring, and again found himself on H Pool, which has served as his bachelor pad of sorts in both recent and distant years. Although this season he did attract a female known as Aye-Aye, there was no evidence of nest initiation by the pair. Historically H Pool has provided poor habitat for Common Loons, with only four fledged chicks since 1987, and if ABJ is to successfully breed again at Seney, it is likely that he will do so on a different Refuge territory. Thanks to Dani Fegan, Teresa McGill and Jen Wycoff for their ongoing observations of the Seney loon population. Picture courtesy of Dani Fegan.

via: Seney National Wildlife Refuge (MI, ISA)

[nyoxt]

Artfight attack with Sordid for Zyleeth

Loon-unicorn feels like something straight out of medieval bestiaries, love it

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

The stupid loon print, ‘Shot on Sight for Entering the Empoyees Only Area’ is finally finished after much suffering. After materials cost and exhibition tax, if this thing sells i will make a whopping fortune of eight whole dollars after this four-day effort so yippee

[bloo-the-dragon]

*slaps this down* TIME TO REVEAL THE SECRET CHILD!

I've had this little guy behind the scenes for the mer au for quite a while now, but some years into Eclipse and Ruin becoming official qpp's (far on ahead in the au's overall timeline) they would have a child together. Specifically Ruin as mers reproduce asexually (and only once during their lifetime) but if they are bonded to a mate, the child will be the partners too and even have a chance of inheriting their traits. Mer magic logic!

So this is Loon, or Moonfish as a fun little nickname me and some friends like to refer to him as! A very fiesty pancake pup. However initially due to Ruin's not so great physical health, his egg almost didn't make it but it managed to survive. A result of this however was Loon being born with a withered arm which Ruin had to nip off, and he has a weak jaw/crunchy vocals so later in life he won't be able to talk much and his voice would be quite raspy.

All this however and he came out of the egg very energetic and ready to jump and attack anything that moved. Neither Ruin or Eclipse knows where this energy comes from but they would be just glad their hatchling was (mostly) healthy and lively.

[hyydraworks]

Wanted to change up the loon mugs a bit, so tried some more dynamic loon poses, and am going to obsessively be recreating the ombre water patterns.

[todaysbird]

common loon on a post-it

[vintagewildlife]

Loon with eggs By: Ken Carmichael From: Getting to Know Nature's Children: Loons 1985