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.

Walter Piper documents declining loon populations in northern Wisconsin. The state's loon population is on the decline. Biology professor Walter Piper's 30-year research in northern Wisconsin ...

ALBANY (AP) – Three articles summarizing research on Adirondack loons have been published in a special issue of the scientific journal Waterbirds dedicated to loon research and conservation in North ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Three articles summarizing research on Adirondack loons have been published in a special issue of the scientific journal Waterbirds dedicated to loon research and conservation in ...

CROSSLAKE, Minn. -- A scientist who documented a decline in Wisconsin’s common loon population has expanded his research to Crow Wing County in north-central Minnesota. Walter Piper, a biology ...

OTIS — Stay quiet. No sudden moves. It shouldn't even know you're here. Thomas Gregg kayaks through the reservoir toward a marshy island. No other humans in sight. “You’ve got to woo the loon,” he ...

Interns Emily Edler, Kate Marthens and Claudia Kodsuntie watch the shoreline for signs of loon nests. Edler and Marthens will spend most of the summer surveying the loons on the Whitefish Chain, while ...