Relaxing Loon Call At Night, Common Loon Call

Relaxing Loon call at nigh, Common Loon Call.

COMMON LOON CALLS AT NIGHT - THIS VIDEO WILL GIVE YOU CHILLS DOWN. Anyone who spends time during summer in northern lake country, the solitary call of the common loon is as much a part of the experience as fresh air.

There are a few different types of loon calls.
For most people, the call of the loon is their first introduction to the species. Loon calls have a distinct, haunting quality that has enchanted humans for centuries. In popular culture, these calls have become a symbol of the wilderness. Loons are most vocal from mid-May to mid-June. They have four main calls which they use to communicate with their families and other loons. Each call has a distinct meaning and serves a unique function.

The wail is most commonly used for long-distance communication between mated pairs of loons. Loon pairs may also wail to one another as they begin to engage with an intruding loon. During periods of high stress, such as when encountering a perceived threat to its nest or chicks, a loon may give a more frantic sounding wail. In these situations, the wail will typically have three or more syllables and may be interspersed with other calls that denote stress, such as the tremolo or the yodel. The wail is frequently heard during night chorusing.

Only male loons yodel. The yodel is typically given whenever a male loon feels threatened, including during aggressive territorial interactions with other loons, when eagles or other predators are nearby, or when a loon’s chicks or nest are closely approached by humans. Male loons often extend their necks flat over the water’s surface while yodeling in order to better project the call.

While the call of the loon is one of the most well-known characteristics of the species, it is not the only interesting aspect of their biology. When you are done listening to the loon sounds, click on other menu items to learn more about these fascinating birds.

Depending on the time of day, the loon's call ranges from a sound somewhere between a yodel and a laugh, to a plaintive wailing that can be heard for long distances across the water. The expressions "looney", or "crazy as a loon" are often related to the behavior of this large water bird. Loon calls can sound a little eerie at times but they can also be very peaceful, meditative and relaxing.

About two times larger than a mallard duck, a mature common loon sports a formal black and white appearance that is as highly recognized as its call. The loon's head and pointed bill are black and offset by startling red eyes. The neck features a collar of short white vertical stripes. The long body is checkered black and white on top and the underside is a silvery-white.

Rarely seen anywhere but on more temperate coastal areas during winter, the loon becomes hardly recognizable with a dull grey body, a dingy white throat, and brownish eyes during this season.

The loon's body is long and heavy with legs placed well to the rear, it is extremely clumsy and slow on land. Legends of First Nations people refer to the loon as the bird with a broken back. Other than to construct a nest and incubate eggs, the loon lives its entire life afloat or in the air.

But for what they lack in mobility on land, loons make up on water as powerful swimmers and highly skilled divers. Loons are known to dive to depths of 15 meters or more in search of a meal.

Though swift fliers once in the air, loons require a long splashing run to get their heavy bodies airborne. They are equally awkward at landings, slapping down at high speed and plowing water in front to stop themselves.

It's probably for this reason that alarmed loons rarely take to the air. Instead, they make themselves almost invisible by submerging their bodies until just their heads and bills are showing. When threatened further they will dive quickly and surface a safe distance away, continuing this behavior until they have frustrated the pursuer.

Courting behaviors are often raucous events that involve much splashing and frenzied running across the water but are sometimes alternated with a complete change of pace in the form of slow ballet-like displays. Nests are usually started in June and are generally constructed with pieces of floating vegetation and placed on a sheltered point directly on the water's edge so the nesting loon can quickly reach the water when threatened.

Masters at deception, loons are rarely seen near their nests. To protect the nest they desert it well before a predator arrives and distracts the intruder by appearing far out on the water.

Usually, two dark greenish or brownish eggs camouflaged with darker spots are laid and both birds take shifts on the nest, incubating for about 30 days. When hatched, young loons are thickly covered in dark brown down and can swim immediately, though they are frequently seen riding on their parent's backs during their first few weeks.

Enjoy these nature sounds and loon calls.

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[Whoozerdaddy]

Truly one of the most beautiful sounds in nature.

[ICee]

This sound evokes so much nostalgia, warmth, love and peace. The call of the loon brings me back 30 years to being a kid at a northwoods resort with my entire family.

My grandma passed over this winter, and my grandfather passed all the way back in 1991.

One of their favorite things to do was sit along on a pier, watch the sun begin to escape behind the tall trees, and listen to the loon’s wail.

I can only hope those moments captured in time exist infinitely. The soft sound of the water around the dock, distant laughs of my cousins playing while dinner is coming off the grill. My Grandpa and Nonny sitting together on the pier watching the sun begin to set and the loon calling out from across the lake. This single bird call brings all of the emotions to mind and heart. It’s beautiful

[johnetter]

The sounds of loons help me reconnect to my ancestors who respected nature.

[minaxkate]

I used to live in Minnesota. One of my favorite memories was camping up in the Boundary Water Canoe Area wilderness. And falling asleep to these calls. The comfort it brings me is deep.

[loonpond]

We have loons on our lake and their call is ethereal. We love hearing them at dusk and in the very early morning.

[kevinmcgiffin]

I listen to this at night before i go to sleep with volume just audible enough to hear like i was out on a northern lake. So calming. God broke the mold when he created these creatures.

[mravalik]

Hearing this call again reminds me of my childhood growing up when my family and I would go camping up near Cadillac in Michigan, my uncle lived near a campground on a lake and although we’d camp a lot, it was the moments of late evenings or early mornings when my dad and uncle would be messing about and just sitting down by the lake smoking cigarettes and just enjoying the view.
Just standing there watching them enjoy the sounds of nature was something else, which unfortunately my uncle passed away two years ago and whenever I hear this damn bird, it always takes me back to when I was young, with no worries, and didn’t have responsibilities.
Damn I miss it 🥹

[owenswabi]

I, a Florida native, spent a month out in the deep woods of Maine a few years back. Every night I fell asleep to the loon call and ever since I have missed it so much. To my surprise, I heard one loon call this morning in the woods of Florida, which I have spent plenty of time in, never experiencing this bird here. Had to come to listen to more of it

[georgiadavison]

I think the haunting calls of the Loon reach something deep inside me, just like the howling of wolves do. I also consider myself very lucky to have a summer place in northern NY State, where I get to go to sleep each night to the calls of loons "talking" across the lake.

[marshotto]

I have canoed In Ontario for more than 50 years, mostly Algonquin. The loon is my favourite sound!

[davidandmargretheruddock]

Fantastic, I love all their different calls and hope we can preserve our loons for ever

[asmirdelic]

I used to live in Northern Ontario, Wabigoon Lake and now living in Europe . I miss this sound of loon so much.

[debbiepastura]

I listen to the loons on lake glenville in North Carolina every night there's so mysterious and haunting but beautiful.

[nathanparrish]

Hearing this makes me think of the boundary waters

[cjsadman]

Miss this sound, heard it every summer growing up, the Adirondack mountains are extravagant! Amazing nature and beauty!

[renaudhobden]

French Canadians have a sentence for them:

When loons come to a lake, the lake is healthy.

;)

[ShysterDelo]

Summer of 2021 me and my friends went to Rock Lake in Algonquin, hearing these calls at night is something I will hopefully always remember.

[unwritten_zephyr]

I worked at a Boy Scout camp where loons lived on the lake. This video immediately makes me feel like I’m home, they sound so pretty.

[colleenengelmann]

They Literally Speak to Each other...Every Call carries a different meaning...I miss hearing that! ❤ Thank You!