Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!unify!Unify.com!grp From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: loons in migration Message-ID: <1991Apr24.090825@Unify.com> Date: 24 Apr 91 16:08:25 GMT References: Sender: news@Unify.Com (news admin) Reply-To: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 23 In article , marcone@math.psu.edu (Alberto G. Marcone) writes: > > On Friday I saw on a small lake here in central Pennsylvania a Common > Loon. After a little walk in the nearby woods I came back on the lake and > saw on the far end of it ten birds. It was becoming dark and they were > pretty far away but I suspect they were more loons. Is this possible? > Do loons migrate in small flocks? Usually loons migrate as singles or pairs. It's possible that what you saw was ten individuals rather than a cohesive flock. In Northern NJ, we would occasionally get small groups of loons on the reservoirs, and rarely one or two would spend the summer (no breeding evidence though). > > Thanks, > Alberto marcone@math.psu.edu -- --- Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com Unify Corporation Be good and never poison people