Yellow-billed Loon
Gavia adamsii(Gray, GR, 1859)
English (US) Yellow-billed Loon
The Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Gaviidae (Loons) in the order Gaviiformes.
Range: breeds Arctic northwestern Russia from Novaya Zemlya eastward to Chukotka Peninsula, through northern Alaska and northern Canada to Nunavut (east-central Canada); winters to northern Norway, Japan and Korean Peninsula, and coastal British Columbia (southwestern Canada); prone to extreme vagrancyRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gavia adamsii
- Family
- Gaviidae (Loons)
- Order
- Gaviiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Described by
- (Gray, GR, 1859)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Colymbus adamsii
- Described by
- (Gray, GR, 1859)
- Type locality
- Russian America. Type from Alaska.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.27, no.2 p.167
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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