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Common loons, and their evocative wailing calls, are familiar summer residents on northern lakes. In winter they molt out of the flamboyant breeding coloration shown here into a subdued gray and white plumage. These were photographed on Wonder Lake in Denali Park, Alaska (above), and on Cantwell Lake, near Willow, Alaska (below). Both adults carefully tend their offspring (usually two, but the pair above had only one). Several of these birds, including the ones with fall foliage reflected in the water, are beginning to molt into winter plumage, which is shown on another page. |
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