The Common Loon is the ABA Bird of the Year for 2025, and I wrote about it here, along with a poem by Miller Oberman. I've never seen a Common Loon but I very much want to.
Chessboard of a bird,
Haberdashery model of stripes and polka dots,
Red eyes:
Diving 200 feet down in the lake,
Flying at 75 miles an hour,
Wailing through the winter night.
©Ruth Bowen Hersey
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