Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii)
About the Yellow-billed Loon
The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the white-billed diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family. Breeding adults have a black head, white underparts and a chequered black-and-white mantle. Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white. Its main distinguishing feature is the long straw-yellow bill, which, because the culmen is straight, appears slightly uptilted.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 20 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Finland, Norway, Russia, United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-throated LoonGavia arcticarecording
- Common LoonGavia immerrecording
- Pacific LoonGavia pacificarecording
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellatarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.