With their lovely plumage, haunting calls and graceful poise, who doesn’t love catching a glimpse of loons in the Boundary Waters? If you’re really lucky, you may’ve even seen one of their grisly, bloodthirsty territorial battles.

For years, the MN-DNR’s efforts to keep loon populations stable in Minnesota, have been supported by scores of volunteer loon-watchers. And now they need you to join their flock (even though loons themselves do not typically flock; by now you probably know they’re quite reclusive and mostly live in pairs — I was just being clever and flowery with my prose, give me a break.)

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