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20 hours agoMore loons are filling Maine's lakes with their ghost-like calls
Maine's loon population increased, with 3,174 adults and 568 chicks in the southern half, showing cautious signs of recovery but not yet secure.
My ignorance of loons was such that when I first saw a loon while kayaking, I thought it was a duck. To my great shame, I went so far as to ask these two other kayakers who were also looking at the loon, "What kind of duck is that?" That is how I learned what loons looked like. This is also when I took the only photo of a loon I got the entire weekend.