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loon

Of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lómr (“loon”), ultimately imitative of the bird's cry, particularly when it's in danger. Distantly related to lament, probably sharing Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (expressive root).

onomatopoeic

imitative

The Loone is an ill ſhap'd thing like a Cormorant; but that he can neyther goe nor flye; he maketh a noiſe ſometimes like a Sovvgelders horne.

1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 31:

[O]h, yes! the loon does shriek dreadfully - particularly when there's fine rain […]

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H. L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:

He came again to her and she said: ‘Run swifter than the deer, be more cunning than the beaver, dive deeper than the loon.’

1903, Zane Grey, Betty Zane, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC:

And I listened for a voice;— / But my heart was all I heard; / Not a screech-owl, not a loon, / Not a tree-toad said a word.

1921, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Blue-Flag in the Bog”, in Second April:

(US, Canada) Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.


great northern diver

en-noun

great northern diver (plural great northern divers)

From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles).

(UK, Ireland) A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.


common loon

great northern diver
great northern diver

(US, Canada) The great northern diver (Gavia immer)


white-billed diver

white-billed diver (plural white-billed divers)

Gavia adamsii
Gavia adamsii#Translingual

Gavia adamsii, the largest member of the loon or diver family, having a black head, white underparts and checkered black-and-white mantle.


yellow-billed loon

yellow-billed loon (plural yellow-billed loons)

A duck, Gavia adamsii, found in the arctic and subarctic.


Pacific diver

Gavia pacifica
Gavia pacifica#Translingual

Gavia pacifica, a medium-sized member of the diver family that breeds on deep lakes in the tundra region of Alaska and northern Canada, having a grey head, black throat, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.


black-throated diver

black-throated diver (plural black-throated divers)

From the fact that the species is a diver with a black throat.

Gavia arctica
Gavia arctica#Translingual

Gavia arctica, a medium-sized member of the loon or diver family that breeds in Eurasia, with grey head, black throat, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.

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Arctic loon

black-throated diver
black-throated diver

(Canada, US) The black-throated diver bird.


red-throated diver

red-throated diver (plural red-throated divers)

From the fact that the species is a diver with a red throat.

Gavia stellata
Gavia stellata#Translingual

Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.


red-throated loon

red-throated loon (plural red-throated loons)


gunner

Cebuano: gunner

gonna (non-rhotic, based on the /ˈɡʌn.ə/ pronunciation)

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun + -er.

Pagellus bogaraveo
Pagellus bogaraveo#Translingual

(UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)


red-throat

(British, birdwatching) The red-throated diver.


black-throat

(British, birdwatching) The black-throated diver (Gavia arctica).


great northern loon

great northern loon (plural great northern loons)


ember-goose

There is the distant cry of an embergoose, and then the moon slips up out of the grasp of the trees.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 406:


doucker

(UK, dialect) Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:


colymbid

Any member of the Colymbidae, an obsolete family made up of two groups of birds that are now known to be not closely related: the grebes (modern Podicipedidae) and the loons/divers (modern Gaviidae).


gaviid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Gaviidae; a loon or diver.


black-throated loon

black-throated loon (plural black-throated loons)

black-throated diver
black-throated diver#English


gaviiform

Any loon or diver of the order Gaviiformes