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SpeciesGaviiformesGaviidae
Birds

🐦Common loon

Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)

Svartnäbbad islom (Gavia immer) är en fågel som tillhör de större inom familjen lommar och har sin främsta häckningsutbredning kring norra Nordamerika men övervintrar bland annat i Nordsjön.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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14
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/13th of your weight
Also called
Great Northern Diver, great northern loon, Great Northern Loon
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.96 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common loon

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.96 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male5.46 kgWikidataQ190342
  • Female4.5 kgWikidataQ190342

Figures vary

  • 3.4 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.37 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.09 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
24 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
28 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
Details ↓

Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
5 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common loon yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderGaviiformes
  5. ›familyGaviidae
  6. ›genusGavia
  7. ›speciesGavia immer
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderGaviiformes
  3. familyGaviidae
  4. genusGavia
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderGaviiformes
  11. familyGaviidae
  12. genusGavia
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In other languages
Eistaucher (de), calàbria grossa (ca), potáplice lední (cs), Islom (da), Colimbo grande (es), amerikanjääkuikka (fi) … and 27 more languages
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