Loon

Divers/Loons; Temporal range: Early Miocene – Recent
	The common loon (Gavia immer)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gaviiformes
Family:	; Coues, 1903
Genus:	; Forster, 1788
Type species
	Gavia immer;
Diversity
	5 species
Synonyms
	Family-level:; Colymbidae Vigors, 1825 (but see text); Colymbinae Bonaparte, 1831 (but see text); Urinatores Vieillot, 1818; Urinatoridae Vieillot, 1818; Urinatorides Vieillot, 1818 Genus-level:; Colymbus Linnaeus, 1758 (but see text); Urinator Lacépède, 1799

Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia. All living species of loons are members of the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae and order Gaviiformes.

^ Melville, RV; Smith, JDD, eds. (1987). Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology. ICZN. p. 17.

[1] Melville, RV; Smith, JDD, eds. (1987). Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology. ICZN. p. 17.

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