CROSSLAKE — Loon callers across Minnesota are invited to bring their best wail, hoot, tremolo or yodel to the Star of the North Loon Calling Contest. While these four calls of the loon are sounds ...

I enjoyed an early morning fishing trip on a beautiful lake last week, using only my quiet electric trolling motor. Using my onboard electronics, I slowly cruised around the lake searching my favorite ...

Loon calls will echo across the streets of Vergas, Minn., this weekend, even though loons may not be in sight. The town of just more than 300 will grow to almost 3,000 as people turn out for the 42nd ...

Last summer, common loons nested for the first time ever on a small mountain lake not far from my home. The pair, which claimed the lake as their own, returned this year, nested and hatched a pair of ...

OTIS — Stay quiet. No sudden moves. It shouldn't even know you're here. Thomas Gregg kayaks through the reservoir toward a marshy island. No other humans in sight. “You’ve got to woo the loon,” he ...