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	White-billed Diver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White-billed Diver, known in North America as Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii), is the largest member of the loon or diver family, at 77-90cm in length with a 135-150 cm wingspan, although it is only marginally larger than the similar Great Northern Diver.
		The main distinguishing feature from Great Northern Diver is the longer straw-yellow bill which, because the culmen is straight, appears slightly uptilted.
		Breeding adults have a black head, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White-billed_Diver (207 words)

	Larks (Order: Passeriformes, Family: Alaudidae)
		The black-throated diver has black-and-white barrings on its back and the red-throated diver has a dove-gray head and neck.
		Loons, or divers as they are often referred to, are water birds who have sleek, streamlined bodies, with short tails and strong, sharp bills.
		In the winter, all divers become gray-brown in color.
	www.animalweb.com /animalworld/showanimal.asp?iid=116 (165 words)

	Latest Shetland Wildlife News
		A first-summer WHITE-BILLED DIVER is in the West Voe of Sumburgh.
		This Great White Egret was at Loch of Spiggie on 19 May. It is presumably the same bird that was at Sand Water (central Mainland) on 19-24 April.
		A GREAT WHITE EGRET - presumably the same bird that was at Sand water until at least the 26 April - turned up at the north end of the Loch of Spiggie (south Mainland) this afternoon.
	www.nature.shetland.co.uk /oldnews/2002birdarch.html (7289 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- November 1996, week 3 (#105)
		White-billed Diver (Gavia adamsii) 1 off Flamborough Head, 13th November 1996.
		White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) 1 Kenfig, Glamorgan, Wales from 10th to 11th November and 1 Porthgwarra, Cornwall from 11th to 12th November, the same bird perhaps though of suspect origin this late in the year.
		Black and White Warbler (Mniotilta varia) The sixth in a remarkable year for this species which almost doubles all previous known records, in eastern England this time, at Norwich, Norfolk from 9th November 1996 onwards.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9611c&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=7538 (1681 words)

	Field Notes: Year 2037
		Two exceptional summer reports of Great Northern Diver were received, of three birds at Crescent City Harbor 11-18 June and one at Mono Lake 26 June.
		The Arctic Diver that wintered at Bodega Harbor was last reported May 29.
		One observer notes that 'scissor-billed' or 'sickle- billed' Black-necked Grebes have not only increased in the C.V. and in s.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bbowman/birds/humor/year2037.html (4452 words)

	Loon Multimedia Site
		The eyes are located entirely within the white featheration on the head, which pulls way back behind the head, there is no notch on the neck, and the small bill is slightly uptilted.
		The head and back of the neck would be dark gray, the back is black-brown and speckled with white, and of course, the front of the neck is bright red, instead of white.
		In breeding plumage, the Common loon is black-checkered white on the back with two characteristic neck stripes, and a black head.
	members.aol.com /GaviaRCool/loonpage.html (6030 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Yellow-billed Loon
		The largest of the world’s five loon species, the Yellow-billed Loon is called the White-billed Diver in Britain because of its bill color and remarkable diving ability.
		The Yellow-billed Loon looks very much like the Common Loon, only larger and with a yellow bill.
		The bill is also longer, angled upward, and bulges slightly on the underside.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=225 (858 words)

	Rare Birds in Lincolnshire - White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Tattershall Bridge, Lincolnshire, March 1996. © Jonathan C Wasse
		White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Tattershall Bridge, Lincolnshire, March 1996.
		The Diver was "reeled in" to release the line and hooks.
		One set of the hooks inside the bird could not be reached, and in order to remove them the sternum would have to be broken.
	www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk /rare_birds/white_billed_diver_2.htm (317 words)

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		Of the four species, the largest is the white-billed diver Gavia adamsii, an Arctic species 75 cm/2.5 ft long.
		They have straight bills, short tail-feathers, webbed feet, and long bodies; they feed on fish, crustaceans, and some water plants.
		The legs are set so far back that walking is almost impossible, but they are powerful swimmers and good flyers, and only come ashore to nest.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007578.html (208 words)

	MTY Yellow-billed Loon
		Note also that the head and neck are even more whiter now, with the auricular spot less visible [but see how differences in lighting or wetness of the feathers may affect perception of characters on two other photos of this same bird, taken 16 Apr 2004, elsewhere on this web site].
		There are a number of other bill shape differences in adult loons, detailed in Binford and Remsen (1974), but it takes much of the first year for the full bill shape to develop, so these are less helpful in first-year loons.
		In winter, the bill of Common Loon is often ivory-colored and it becomes blackish only as spring approaches.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/MTYlistYBLO.html (1454 words)

	Natural Born Birder
		Main species of interest in spring here are White-billed Diver, Red-throated Diver and Skuas, although a wide variety of seaduck and waders also pass in large numbers.
		This site is special in many ways, not least the Skogsøy side, where, among other things, details of the phenomenal spring migration of divers past SW Norway can be found.
		However, birding to some people may be more than sitting on a remote headland until hypothermia sets in so this site also covers some of the other birding I do whilst not seawatching.
	www.naturalbornbirder.com (714 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- June 1996, week 2 (#83)
		Divers, Gavia, Helsinki, 10.480 migrating on 31.5, new Finnish record!
		Spring in Finland has been exceptional, at least as to the number of hot rarities and some good geese and diver migration.
		EuroBirdNet Finland May-June 1996 Turku 12.6.96 I was away for a week watching migration at Virolahti, came back to repack my bags (and twitched a Blue-cheeded Bee-eater) and did 10 days as a guide for a Birdquest group.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9606b&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=6197 (480 words)

	wbdiver.htm
		White-billed Diver, Found dead at Elie Ness, March 2003
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /fifebirdclub/wbdiver.htm (9 words)

	Isosaari. 1994-95
		Divers were still present, without end in their stream, and so were the Black Guillemots (Cepphus grylle).
		When the first Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), the first Teal (Anas crecca) and the first White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) appeared, we started to make notes of arriving migratories and we also formed the list of the species seen in Isosaari.
		The bill was very thin, almost like a warbler's bill.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Isosaari.html (5040 words)

	Slettnes 2000
		As a result, we enjoyed some spectacular birding, but the total counts of divers and skuas which we recorded are not directly comparable with the numbers reported by the doubtless hardier and more systematic Scandinavian seawatchers in previous years.
		Also some easterly movement, but most smaller divers moving east were identified as diver spp or Red-throated.
		One pure white bird was seen at very long range off Slettnes.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Slettnes00.html (1622 words)

	Latest National Bird News (Courtesy L.G.R.Evans)
		On Shetland, the adult winter WHITE-BILLED DIVER remains in South Nesting Bay, off Kirkabister, and drake American Wigeons continue at the Loch of Hillwell and at Scatness.
		In Cheshire, a Black-throated Diver remains at Rostherne Mere (viewable from the rear of the churchyard on the south side); 5 Water Pipits are wintering at Neston Old Quay (with 29 Bewick’s Swans nearby on Burton Marsh) and the American Green-winged Teal continues at Inner Marsh Farm RSPB reserve.
		On the Isles of Scilly, the juvenile white morph GYRFALCON flew over St Martin’s at midday being pursued by one of the resident Peregrines.
	www.sennen-cove.com /birdnews.htm (4022 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Sweden to the Barents Sea
		Besides the ubiquitous Ringed Plovers, there were Herring Gulls, White Wagtails, Redwings, Redpolls, Wheatears, Raven, a Red-throated Pipit and even a White-tailed Eagle that had followed a Salmon river to its source and descended another one on the other side of the pass.
		And a roadside Three-toed Woodpecker on a dead tree W of the same town. A Black-necked Diver flyby near lake E of Posjärv/SWE.
		WBD no.8! E of Krampenes, both EAGLES are asleep on a twin high voltage pole; we can drive up to it at less than 100 yds.! And see 3 more Long-tailed Skuas on sea level.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/scandinavia/scand2/scand-jul-03.htm (3996 words)

	South Dublin Branch - What's about
		Very difficult to separate from the closely related, and ever so slightly more common, Long-billed Dowitcher (naturally, bill length is no real help at all), there have only been a handful of previous records of this species in Europe.
		Known as a Short-billed Dowitcher, it is a little smaller than a Redshank and looks somewhat like a cross between a godwit and a Snipe, though with bright yellow legs.
		A Great White Egret and two Black Terns off Skerries 16/08 with a Sooty Tern present 15/08.
	www.birdweb.net /whats_about.html (1195 words)

	Site Map
		Broad Billed Sandpiper at Drayton Basset GP, Staffordshire on June 8, 2004.
		Ring Billed Gull Bedhampton, Hampshire on February 2, 2003.
		White Stork images from Beddingham March 14, 2003
	www.thebirdsofsussex.co.uk /sitemap.htm (1487 words)

	Birds: Gaviidae
		Gavia Forster, J. Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan, 1763) - Red-throated Diver/ Red-throated Loon
		Gavia pacifica (Lawrence, 1858) - Pacific Diver/ Pacific Loon
		Gavia immer (Brunnich, 1764) - Great Northern Diver/ Common Loon
	www.phthiraptera.org /Birds/Gaviidae.html (72 words)

	Voyage through the Aleutians - Part 3
		Even at this distance we could make out the immense orange bill, white tail and white shoulder patches on the adult bird.
		Yellow Wagtails were abundant along the banks and were accompanied by single Grey, White and Black-backed Wagtail.
		Moments before the bus was due to leave, Andy and I noticed a dull skulking passerine flit low across the dirt road and move along the base of the hedgerow.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /Aleut.3.html (2316 words)

	April 1999
		White-billed Diver 2(5), Spoonbill 1 is 7th record for Skagen, White Stork 1
		Red-throated Diver 340, Marsh Harrier 1, Hen Harrier 1, Goshawk 1, Sparrowhawk 72, Common Buzzard 44, Rough-legged Buzzard 9, Osprey 2, Kestrel 2, Merlin 2, Tree Pipit 1.
		Red-throated Diver 307, Gannet 10, Goldeneye 50, Long-tailed Duck 137, Common Scoter 894, Marsh Harrier 1, Hen Harrier 2, Sparrowhawk 10, Common Buzzard 30, Rough-legged Buzzard 5, Osprey 2, Arctic Skua 3, Glaucous Gull 1 2K, Black Guillemot 3, Short-eared Owl 137, Northern Wheatear 1.
	home5.inet.tele.dk /ec-skaw/april99.htm (2368 words)

	Varanger observations 1999
		White-billed Diver 42 birds altogether, 8 of which ad still in full summer/breeding plumage, 19 ad in transitional plumage, 1 ad in winter plumage and 14 juv, situated as follows: 1 Prestnäringen, 4 Persfjorden, 14 on "Båtsfjord-side" of Seglodden, 17 Sandfjorden and 5 local + 1 flying West at Hamningberg.
		Counting migration at Skagodden, Vardø from 05:30 - 08:00; 6 White-billed Diver (two resident, two towards the east, two towards the east and resting on the sea), 5 Red-throated Diver east, 2 Black-throated Diver southeast, 100 Parasitic Skua (east + 30 resident), 2 ad.
		Upperside: dark wings and visible white wingbar, pale back, not seen how much summer-feathers still remaining, owing the distance.
	www.tommy777.addr.com /Observations-1999.htm (2772 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Among the rare and endangered birds are Bewick`s Swan, Red-breasted Goose, Gyrfalcon, Peregrine, and White-tailed Eagle.
		There are a number of rare and endangered birds such as Siberian White Crane, Golden Eagle, Bewick`s Swan, Red-breasted Goose, Osprey, and White-tailed Eagle.
		Its area of 631,300 hectares is located on Verkhnetazovskaya Upland, in the watershed of the river Taz tributaries - Pokolka and Ratta.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/asia/siberia.html (2136 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Northern Scandinavia
		No White-billed Diver, King Eider, Capercaillie, Dotterel, Woodpeckers generally. We were too early for Arctic Warbler, though the 'Tengmalm man' gave us directions to a regular site.
		In Batsfjord itself, we got Glaucous Gull and Long-tailed Duck, but had to resign ourselves to dipping on White-billed Diver on this trip; we were about to turn our backs on Varanger.
		We went to Tana Bru and turned north, aiming for the road over the plateau to Batsfjord. In much improved conditions, we stopped 30km north of Tana Bru and looked for Gyrfalcon, but the best we could do was a Peregrine and a Great Spotted Woodpecker.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/scandinavia/scand4/scan-jan-02.htm (1968 words)

	BirdForum - White-billed Diver
		I hope the birding mags will print the better shots of the diver I took soon.
		That's the biggest billed WBD I have ever seen!
		When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=29031 (263 words)

	Gaviiformes Science, Directory
		White-billed Diver (Gavia adamsii) Images of a bird in Lincolnshire, UK.
		Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) Video, ID, and European range.
		Arctic Loon (Gavia arctica) Images of this species in Japan.
	www.matthewfoxfcs.org /bWZmXzcxMDg5.aspx (129 words)

	Karaginsky Island management plan, Russian Federation: file 4
		Yellow-billed Loon (White-billed Diver) is common in coastal areas during migration.
		The following birds inhabiting Karaginsky Island are listed into the Red Data Book of Russia:
	www.ramsar.org /wurc/wurc_mgtplan_russia1d.htm (2050 words)

	AEWA - African-Eurasian Migratory Water Bird Agreement
		HvidnÃ¦bbet Lom (Danish), Geelsnavelduiker (Dutch), White-billed Diver (English), Yellow-billed Loon (English), JÃ¤Ã¤kuikka (Finnish), Plongeon Ã bec blanc (French), Gelbschnabel-Eistaucher (German), Strolaga beccogiallo (Italian), Nur bialodzioby (Polish), MobÃªlha-de-bico-branco (Portuguese), Белоклювая гагара (Russian), Colimbo de Adams (Spanish), SvartnÃ¤bbad islom (Swedish), vitnÃ¤bbad islom (Swedish)
	www.unep-aewa.org /birds/index.cfm?species=8958 (64 words)

	Scandinavia 2003 Trip Report
		High on my target list were the Owls, Gyr Falcon, Red Flanked Bluetail, Pine Grosbeak, White Billed Diver and Steller's Eider.
		After a very enjoyable holiday in Scandinavia in 2002, I decided to return in 2003 to hopefully see some of the many species of bird that eluded me in 2002 (See Scandinavia 2002).
		I have been lucky enough to have two 14 day holidays in the area, and despite seeing many superb species likeGreat Grey Owl, Gyrfalcon, Steller's and King Eider, I am still tempted to return to try and find the species that still elude me.
	www.btinternet.com /~pdj_photos/trips/scand03.htm (574 words)

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