Species profile
Pacific Loon
Gavia pacifica
Quick answer
Coastal e Siberia and n N America; winters to Japan, s Baja
- Scientific name
- Gavia pacifica
- Family
- Gaviidae
- Order
- Gaviiformes
- Genus
- Gavia
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Pacific Loon in your journal
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Related species in Gaviidae
- Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica)
- Colymbiculus udovichenkoi (Colymbiculus udovichenkoi)
- Colymboides anglicus (Colymboides anglicus)
- Colymboides metzleri (Colymboides metzleri)
- Colymboides minutus (Colymboides minutus)
- Gavia brodkorbi (Gavia brodkorbi)
- Gavia concinna (Gavia concinna)
- Gavia egeriana (Gavia egeriana)