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Pacific loons (despite their name) breed across the Arctic, where they sport an elegant gray, black, and white pattern. They molt into a much less flashy non-breeding plumage during the migration south to coastal areas for the winter. The breeding-plumage birds were photographed near Barrow, Alaska, and on a small lake along the 'Launch Road' east of Churchill, Manitoba. Like other breeding-plumage loons (see these red-throated loons and common loons), they have insanely red eyes. The winter-plumage loons were at Bolsa Chica wetlands in coastal Orange County, California. |
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