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      • Class - Birds - Aves
        • Order - Loons - Gaviiformes
          • Family - Loons - Gaviidae
            • Species - Pacific Loon - Gavia pacifica

Pacific Loon - Gavia pacifica

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNA

Agency Status
USFWS: none
USFS: none
BLM: none
CFWCS Tier: 4
PIF: none

 

General Description

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General Distribution

Montana Range



Western Hemisphere Range

 

Summary of Observations Submitted for Montana

Number of Observations: 39

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Relative Density

Recency

Breeding
(direct evidence "B")

Breeding
(indirect evidence "b")

No evidence of Breeding
(transient "t")

Overwintering
(regular observations "W")

Overwintering
(at least one obs. "w")

 

(Records associated with a range of dates are excluded from time charts)

Additional Sources of Information Related to "Birds"

• American Bird Conservancy
  
• American Ornithologists Union
  
• Audubon
  
• Avian Science Center
  
• BBS - North American Breeding Bird Survey
  
• BIRDNET
  
• Birds in a Sagebrush Sea - Managing Sagebrush Habitats for Bird Communities
  
• Feather Atlas (Flight Feathers of North American Birds)
  
• MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship)
  
• MOB (Montana's Bird Observation List Serve)
  
• Montana Audubon
  
• Montana Bird Checklist
  
• Montana Bird Conservation Partnership and Montana Partners in Flight
  
• Montana Chapter of the Wildlife Society
  
• Natural Heritage Tracker (Statewide Database of Animal Observations)
  
• North American Breeding Bird Survey
  
• Owl Research Institute
  
• Royal Alberta Museum Bird Egg Exhibition
  
• Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
  
• Wing Image Collection at Slater Museum of Natural History
  

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Citation for data on this website:
Pacific Loon — Gavia pacifica.  Montana Field Guide.  Retrieved on February 9, 2010, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/detail_ABNBA01050.aspx