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= Common Loon = Picture Source Scientific Name: //Gavia immer// Natural Habitat : Lakes with a small island or shoreline, which provide safe places for them to keep there young. Abiotic Factors: Shade and room to make a nest on the shoreline or island of the lake. Biotic Factors: Fish live around the birds; the birds feed off of them. There are also many trees around them. Diet: Fish, crayfish, snails, leeches, frogs, salamanders, and aquatic insects.

An adult loon can weigh around 8-12 pounds. A loons main food source is fish. They eat about 22 times their body weight in food everyday. The Loon eats the fish and fish eat bacteria and smaller fish within the lake or pond. Loons are not normally prey for other animals, although their young are eaten by skunks, raccoons, foxes and snapping turtles. They begin breeding around age 3 or 4. Usually, Loons lay around 2 eggs which is a small amount compared to a duck which lays about 8-12. The loon is active mostly in the Spring time. Loons were built for swimming and diving to eat their food.

Endangered Species: when an animal is becoming threatened and in danger by a specific thing; there are many habitats being destroyed, and when there are no more species there to reproduce. Population: 11,626 adult loons The Wildlife Conservation is an organization that is trying to save the common loon. Loons are affected by water pollution in the lakes. This is a main reason why they are dying out.

Interesting Facts: -Loons can stay under water for a maximum of five minutes. -Scientists think that loons will live to be around 30 years old. - The extra weight on loons help them dive about 250 ft. deep to get food. - The red in a loon's eye helps it see under water. - They can fly faster than 75 mph.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">If the loon were to go extinct, the animal that the animal ate would become over populated and the animal would not be there anymore.

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