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Originally Posted by SteveA
I fact, loons are not all that hard to "capture". I went to a lecture at the Loon center and they explained the way they capture them for banding. They go out at night well after dark, in a boat. They shine a flashlight and , for some reason the loon will swim towards the light and are captured, banded and released.
Some loons are captured over and over again and end up wit a series on bands. The banding program is covered here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSfm9QZMkKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSWsrvQFQkA
Dozen of video's Just "google" Common Loon Night Banding
Interesting Loon fact..
•Loons are more closely related to penguins than to any North American waterfowl.
https://americanexpedition.us/common-loon-facts |
Hmm, thanks I didn't know that. There was one a few summers ago with some fishing tackle around it's bill. I called about it and they said they knew about it, that it wasn't eating and they had lost track of it a few weeks before. They asked if it was still diving and I told them yes, they said they couldn't catch it until it was too sick to dive, so I thought they couldn't catch them. Anyone they called me back a few weeks later to tell me they had caught it and it was doing fine.