T-Shirt Tuesday: Common Loon

This week's featured t-shirt design is our Birdorable Common Loon. Loons are currently migrating north and passing through northern Illinois, where we live. This time of year, local bird clubs organize "Looney trips" where birders drive from lake to lake to spot these beautiful birds. Have you seen a Loon this year?

Birdorable Common Loon

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Spurwing Plover on June 8, 2023 at 5:47 PM wrote:
Their call called the Wail is probibly one of the most blood chilling Sound in NATURE

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