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Gavia immer · Family Gaviidae

Gavia immer

Family Gaviidae

Order
Gaviiformes
Family
Gaviidae
GBIF occurrence records
3,220,421
Countries and territories with records
60
Common loon
John Picken from Chicago, USA · Gavia immer -Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA -swimming-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · John Picken from Chicago, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Gavia_immer_-_Great_Northern_Loon_XC139387.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 3,220,421 occurrence records from 60 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (68.2%), Canada (25.6%), Norway (1.5%) and the United Kingdom (1.2%); together they account for 96.5% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.2% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Gavia immer combines the genus name Gavia with the species epithet immer. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Gavia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Gavia stellata, Gavia arctica and Gavia pacifica.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 5 species of the family Gaviidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 2.8 times the family average (1,162,823). The family Gaviidae belongs to the order Gaviiformes, which has 5 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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