Loons Gallery

Northern diver or loon, Colymbus glacialis

Northern diver or loon, Colymbus glacialis. . Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany 1812

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

Bird, Colymbus, Copperplate, Diver, Engraving, Frederick, George, Glacialis, Handcolored, Historical, History, Loon, Miscellany, Naturalist, Nodder, Northern, Polydore, Richard, Shaw

Great northern diver or loon, Gavia immer

Great northern diver or loon, Gavia immer. . Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

1821, Birds, British, Copperplate, Diver, Engraving, Gavia, George, Graves, Great, Handcolored, Historical, History, Immer, Loon, Northern, Ornithology

Canada, Quebec, Eastman. Common loon with sleeping chick on back

Canada, Quebec, Eastman. Common loon with sleeping chick on back. Credit as: Gilles Delisle / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

© Gilles Delisle / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Animal, Avian, Bird, Canada, Carrying, Chick, Common Loon, Eastman, Gilles Delisle, Jaynes Gallery, Lake, Loon, Quebec, Reflection, Sleeping, Swimming, Water, Yellow, Young