A young loon riding on its mother’s back. A new study in Wisconsin shows loon chicks are declining as water clarity worsens due to increased runoff from heavy rains spurred by climate change.

CROSSLAKE, Minn. (AP) - A researcher trying to understand what's causing a decline in Wisconsin's loon population is expanding his project into Minnesota. Minnesota Pubic Radio reported Wednesday that ...

CABLE – Overnight thunderstorms had departed; the skies of Bayfield County sparkled shortly after sunrise Saturday. They carried beautiful music, too. Emily Stone of Cable and I had just pulled into ...

ANTIGO, Wis. — Our wintry spring has been inconvenient and psychically taxing for many, but for loons in northern Wisconsin it is literally life-threatening. The Raptor Education Group, Inc. (REGI), ...

Despite its name, there’s nothing ordinary about the common loon. For starters, it’s an ancient species – with a wingspan of five feet, and it’s related to the penguin. It’s the only loon nesting in ...

ONEIDA COUNTY (WKOW) — On a remote lake in northern Wisconsin, an unlikely family is defying nature in favor of nurture. A loon pair has adopted a mallard duckling as its chick, despite the two being ...

Dozens of common loons – the mascot bird of the Northwoods – have fallen from the icy, sleeting skies of northern Wisconsin. The “loon fallout” phenomenon across April 19-20 this spring wasn’t just ...

IRON COUNTY (WLUK) -- An injured loon was rescued in northern Wisconsin. These pictures were taken by the Iron County Sheriff's Department Wednesday, April 26. The loon was found along US 2 in the ...

So, too, is seeing the regal bird floating along a lake’s surface, sometimes with a small, fluffy brown chick on its back. But when Elaina Lomery visited a lake in Oneida County to check on a chick a ...

ASHLAND, Wis. - Recent results from a volunteer survey of loons show that the aquatic bird species’ population is strong in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Loon Population Survey estimates that the state’s ...

RHINELANDER, Wis. — A cascading series of environmental factors pushed by climate change are causing a decline in northern Wisconsin’s loon population and may be limiting loon numbers in Minnesota as ...