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Alexander Wetmore
Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 North Freedom, Wisconsin – December 7, 1978 Glen Echo, Maryland) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (Swedish original name Carl Linnæus, also Carl Nilsson Linnæus, Latinized as Carolus Linnæus, also known after his ennoblement as , Latinized as Carolus a Linné, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.
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Elliott Coues
Elliott Coues (September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.
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Joel Asaph Allen
Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist and ornithologist, born in Springfield, MA.
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Killian Mullarney
Killian Mullarney is an Irish ornithologist, bird artist and bird tour leader. He designed a series of Irish definitive stamps for An Post illustrating Irish birds issued between 1997 and 2004.
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Pamela C. Rasmussen
Professor Pamela Cecile Rasmussen (b. October 16, 1959) is a prominent American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University. She is associated with other major centres of research in the US and UK.
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Pierce Brodkorb
Pierce Brodkorb (September 29, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois – July 18, 1992 in Gainesville, Florida), also stated as William Pierce Brodkorb, was an American ornithologist and paleontologist.
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Robert Ridgway
:This article is about the American ornithologist. For the Virginia congressman, lawyer and editor, see Robert Ridgway (congressman).
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Robert W. Storer
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Steve Madge
Steve Madge is a birder, author, and bird tour leader, based in Cornwall, England.
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Storrs Olson
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Antarctica
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Chapman University
Chapman University is a private, nonprofit university located in Orange, California affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Known for its blend of liberal arts and professional programs, Chapman University encompasses seven schools and colleges: Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Schmid College of Science, College of Performing Arts, School of Law and College of Educational Studies. Named to the list of top universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review, Chapman University enrolls more than 6,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students.
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Chile
Chile (, in English often pronounced //,), officially the Republic of Chile ( ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. With Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America which do not border Brazil. The Pacific coastline of Chile is 6,435 kilometres (4000 mi). Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
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Denmark
Denmark (; , , archaic: ), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: ) together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland (Jylland) and many islands, most notably Zealand (Sjælland), Funen (Fyn), Vendsyssel-Thy (commonly considered a part of Jutland), Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Denmark has long controlled the approach to the Baltic Sea; before the digging of the Kiel Canal, water passage to the Baltic Sea was possible only through the three channels known as the "Danish straits".
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Florida
Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
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France
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Great Britain
Great Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island. With a population of about 60.0 million people in mid-2009, it is the third most populated island on Earth. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands and islets. The island of Ireland lies to its west. Politically, Great Britain may also refer to the island itself together with a number of surrounding islands which comprise the territory of England, Scotland and Wales.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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LACM
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Lusk, Wyoming
Lusk may also refer to a rural town in the part of County Dublin now overseen by Fingal County Council, Ireland.
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Maine
Maine () (French: ) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is the northern and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, and its heavily forested interior—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.
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Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of 6.6 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of the state consists of urban, suburban, and rural areas, while Western Massachusetts is mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third among U.S. states in GDP per capita.
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Mercer, Wisconsin
Mercer is a town in southern Iron County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,732 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Manitowish is located within the town.
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Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is a French corruption of the Ojibwe word mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake".
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Minnesota
Minnesota () is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.27 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. New Hampshire ranks 44th in land area, 46th in total area of the 50 states, and 41st in population.
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Ontario
Ontario is a Province of Canada located in the east-central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area, (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger in area, but they are not provinces.) The province's largest metropolitan area and Canada's most populous city, Toronto, is the capital city of Ontario. The national capital of Canada, Ottawa, is located in Ontario as well.
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Orciano Pisano
Orciano Pisano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 70 km southwest of Florence and about 25 km southeast of Pisa, in the Pisan Hills.
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Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is south of the equator—the word hemisphere (from the Greek word σφαιρα (sphere)
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USNM
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area. It has a population of 621,270, making it the second least-populated state. The only New England state with no coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, Vermont is notable for Lake Champlain (which makes up 50% of Vermont's western border) and the Green Mountains, which run north to south. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Québec to the north.
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Interview with rap artist turned Muslim - 2 Jul 09
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- Duration: 7:09
- Published: 05 Jul 2009
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
A growing number of rap artists are leaving the bad boy hip hop lifestyle for a more spiritual one. The Canadian Dawah Association says that an increasing number of rappers this year have embraced Islam or acknowledged they had in the past. Amir Junaid Muhadith, better known by his stage name, Loon, talks to Al Jazeera's Sami Zeidan about his spiritual journey.
http://wn.com/Interview_with_rap_artist_turned_Muslim__2_Jul_09
Loon - In Pursuit of Happiness - From Rap Sensation To Islam - Formerly of Bad Boy Records
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- Duration: 113:42
- Published: 08 Dec 2010
- Uploaded: 29 Oct 2011
- Author: khalifahklothing
Amir Junaid Muhaddith, formerly known as Loon, the famous rap artist, born and raised in Harlem, gives an insight into the true value of Islam. This is the second of a series of 3 talks given by brother Amir (Loon) in his first ever Queensland, Australia tour. "In Pursuit of Happiness" revolves around three concepts: 1) When you are given you are thankful. 2) When you are tested you are patient. 3) When you have committed a sin you repent and seek forgiveness. Presented by Australian Muslim Youth Network - AMYN (AMYNweb.com) and HikmahWay Institute (HikmahWay.com). Brother Amir Junaid Muhadith (Loon) is rapper formerly part of P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records, where he released his self-titled debut album, Loon. He has also made many guest appearances on songs of the R&B and hip hop genres. In 2004, Loon left Bad Boy to start his own label, Boss Up Entertainment. Loon started his music career as a member of Mase's rap collective Harlem World (group). Along with his music Loon has also been featured in two movies directed by Damon Dash, State Property 2 and Death of a Dynasty. In Dec. 2008 Brother Amir accepted Islam whilst on tour in Dubai, UAE. He changed his name to Amir Junaid Muhadith. He recently traveled to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest and most sacred site of the Islamic religion, to perform Umrah. He has since quit rapping and now is focusing on seeking knowledge and giving Da'wa. Courtesy of: www.islamtv.com.au
http://wn.com/Loon__In_Pursuit_of_Happiness__From_Rap_Sensation_To_Islam__Formerly_of_Bad_Boy_Records
Loon & Mario Winans- Down For Me (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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- Duration: 4:22
- Published: 01 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: HBKFuckingOwns
old skool song from 2003
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Interview Former Rap Artist Loon accepts ISLAM -TheDeenshow
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- Duration: 28:10
- Published: 14 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: khalifahklothing
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IYOS Amir Muhadith aka Loon pt1
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 25 Feb 2010
- Uploaded: 02 Nov 2011
- Author: NomadicStatus
Amir Junaid Muhadith (born Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, June 20, 1975) better known by his stage name Loon, formerly an African-American rapper who was part of P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records. Amir (Loon) accepted Islam in Dec. 2008 whilst on tour in Dubai, UAE. His inspiring story of rising up from the ghettos of Harlem, NY to street-hustling and later making it in to the rap game and eventually realising the truth of Islam and becoming Muslim, is quite a story. Amir never attained true personal fulfilment despite enjoying the pinnacle of material life (wealth, success and fame), no matter how hard he strove, he couldnt attain that inner peace that can only be realised by submitting to ones Lord, living for the hereafter and not the present life, the complete contentment of believing in, worshipping and supplicating to the Lord of the worlds, practising the beautiful religion of Islam.
http://wn.com/IYOS_Amir_Muhadith_aka_Loon_pt1
Loon Vs. Dipset
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- Duration: 5:03
- Published: 03 Nov 2006
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: JOSHINC434
unrworld.com
http://wn.com/Loon_Vs_Dipset
Loon calls
This loon was found in a small lake, Chant Lake, off a portage of Burntside Lake near Ely, MN in August 2006.
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Voices: Common Loon
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- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 19 May 2010
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: LabofOrnithology
Experience the quintessential sound of the North Woods as described by Macaulay Library Audio Curator, Greg Budney. Illustrated with beautiful photographs by Marie Read: www.marieread.com and audio recordings by Steve Pantle. Learn more about Common Loons at All About Birds www.allaboutbirds.org To explore more audio recordings visit the Macaulay Library: macaulaylibrary.org
http://wn.com/Voices_Common_Loon
Toni Braxton Featuring Loon - Hit The Freeway ft. Loon
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- Duration: 3:52
- Published: 25 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: ToniBraxtonVEVO
Music video by Toni Braxton Featuring Loon performing Hit The Freeway. (C) 2002 Arista Records, Inc.
http://wn.com/Toni_Braxton_Featuring_Loon__Hit_The_Freeway_ft_Loon
Track 12 - ICP - The Loons (Ringmaster)
track 12 the loons from icp s the ringmaster "hello?" "neckcutta" "pardon?" "neckcutta" "who is this?" "neckcutta" "who do you wish to speak with?" "your neck" "what?" "neckcutta, neckcutta, neckcutta, neckcutta, neck...cutta" Little miss muffet, oh, she never had a clue Of the psychopathic wicked clown is finna do Creeping through the backyards underneath the moon Only three blocks away, the joker looney toon Listen to the loon, listen to the pain Listen to the one they call the violent j insane Watch me as i duck and i dash through the night I can see the shadows of the moon in my butcher knife Pretty little world has created this monster See me living with a dead body in a dumpster Laughing in your castle but i can't crush your moat But then i take a boat and cut your fucking throat So now i'm getting closer so i crawl under a house I'm waiting for the car to pass and then i crawl back out Another block down just a little ways to go... "hello?" I'm the neck cutter and i'm three blocks away (3x) Violent violent, violent j I'm the neck cutter and i'm three blocks away (3x) J, j, violent j I can hear the crickets and the creatures of the night You can hear me drag my foot and scrape my butcher knife I can hear the owl as it trims a wicked tune You can hear the loons, the loons, the loons Listen to the little pitter-patter of my feet As i howl like a dog and i'm running down the street Hiding in the trees, hiding in the bushes You're sitting on your couch and i'm <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Track_12__ICP__The_Loons_Ringmaster
Insane Clown Posse - The Loons
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- Duration: 5:35
- Published: 09 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: qwerty4965324
The Loons From The Ringmaster, Track #12
http://wn.com/Insane_Clown_Posse__The_Loons
pee loon full HD
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 03 Jul 2010
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: coolraj2522
pee loon tere neele neele naino se shabnam pee loon tere geele geele hotho ki shargam pee loon hai peene ka mausam tere sang ik khumari hai tere sang chan bhi mujhko tere sang bekarari hai
http://wn.com/pee_loon_full_HD
loons calling in the mist
While watching two loons who are upset by the presence of an eagle, someone gets a strike and then loses the fish. Taken on Lake Wasson, MN, near Loon Point Resort
http://wn.com/loons_calling_in_the_mist
Loon - Distracted
Video by former Bad Boy artist Loon Shot in Tanzania that includes appearance by Tanzania's own 2005 Miss World Africa Nancy Sumari
http://wn.com/Loon__Distracted
Pee Loon - | New Full *HD* Song| Once Upon a Time In Mumbai (2010)
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- Duration: 2:03
- Published: 11 Jun 2010
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: mumbaigoesrewind
Pee loon tere neelay neelay nainon se shabnam Pee loon tere geelay geelay honthon ki sargam Pee loon hai peenay ka mausam Tere sang ishq taari hai Tere sang ik khumari hai Tere sang chain bhi mujhko Tere sang bekraari hai Tere bin jee nahi lagda, tere bin jee nahi sakda Tujhpe hai...
http://wn.com/Pee_Loon__|_New_Full_*HD*_Song|_Once_Upon_a_Time_In_Mumbai_2010
Pee Loon - Once Upon A Time In Mumbai (2010) *HD* Music Videos
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- Duration: 4:28
- Published: 01 Sep 2010
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: SominalTvHindiMusic
Pee Loon Full Song, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Music Videos, Hindi Song, Hindi Movie, Watch Online, SominalTv, SominalTvStudio, Ajay Devgan, Emran Hashmi, Kangana Ranawat, Prachi Desai
http://wn.com/Pee_Loon__Once_Upon_A_Time_In_Mumbai_2010_*HD*_Music_Videos
Common Loon Concert
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- Duration: 1:14
- Published: 08 Sep 2007
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: Sparky42854
This video was taken on Forked Lake in the Adirondacks of northern New York during a camping trip in 2005. The call of the Common Loon is an eerie, but beautiful sound.
http://wn.com/Common_Loon_Concert
Burnt Island Lake V Algonquin Park Ontario Canada
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 10 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Sep 2011
- Author: videoprospector
Digital Landscape from Videoprospector.
http://wn.com/Burnt_Island_Lake_V_Algonquin_Park_Ontario_Canada
John Prine : Crazy As A Loon
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- Duration: 4:28
- Published: 16 Jun 2010
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: TheChoughs
From 2005
http://wn.com/John_Prine__Crazy_As_A_Loon
Rap Singer Loon Talks About His Spiritual Journey To Islam
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- Duration: 7:18
- Published: 08 Jul 2009
- Uploaded: 03 Nov 2011
- Author: NiceIslam101
Interview with rap artist turned Muslim - 2 Jul 09 A growing number of rap artists are leaving the bad boy hip hop lifestyle for a more spiritual one. The Canadian Dawah Association says that an increasing number of rappers this year have embraced Islam or acknowledged they had in the past. Amir Junaid Muhadith, better known by his stage name, Loon, talks to Al Jazeera's Sami Zeidan about his spiritual journey. www.islaam.ca Amir Junaid Muhadith (born Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, June 20, 1975) better known by his stage name Loon, formerly an African-American rapper who was part of P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records. Amir (Loon) accepted Islam in Dec. 2008 whilst on tour in Dubai, UAE. His inspiring story of rising up from the ghettos of Harlem, NY to street-hustling and later making it in to the rap game and eventually realising the truth of Islam and becoming Muslim, is quite a story. Amir never attained true personal fulfilment despite enjoying the pinnacle of material life (wealth, success and fame), no matter how hard he strove, he couldnt attain that inner peace that can only be realised by submitting to ones Lord, living for the hereafter and not the present life, the complete contentment of believing in, worshipping and supplicating to the Lord of the worlds, practising the beautiful religion of Islam.
http://wn.com/Rap_Singer_Loon_Talks_About_His_Spiritual_Journey_To_Islam
Loon joins scuba divers
While scuba diving in the Cuyuna Mines in Northern Minnesota with a few friends this loon joined us. Quite a treat.
http://wn.com/Loon_joins_scuba_divers
Moose rescued from Frozen Loon Lake Spokane Washington
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- Duration: 1:23
- Published: 16 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: Chile2007Earthquake
Beavers-Lodge.com Moose rescued from Frozen Lake Ever wonder what to do if you see a huge moose stuck in a frozen lake?
http://wn.com/Moose_rescued_from_Frozen_Loon_Lake_Spokane_Washington
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
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The loons (North America) or divers (UK/Ireland) are a group of aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia (Europe, Asia and debatably Africa). All living species of loons are members of the genus (Gavia), family (Gaviidae) and order (Gaviiformes).
Description
. Top: Great Northern Diver, Mid-left: Red-throated Diver, Mid-right: White-billed Diver, Bottom: Black-throated Diver.]] or Common Loon (G. immer) rearing up. Note the plump body and pointed but rather short wings.]] The loon, the size of a large duck or small goose, resembles these birds in shape when swimming. Like ducks and geese but unlike coots (which are Rallidae) and grebes (Podicipedidae), the loon's toes are connected by webbing. The bird may be confused with cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae), not too distant relatives of divers and like them are heavy set birds whose bellies – unlike those of ducks and geese – are submerged when swimming. Flying loons resemble a plump goose with a seagull's wings, relatively small in proportion to the bulky body. The bird holds its head pointing slightly upwards during swimming, but less so than cormorants do. In flight the head droops more than in similar aquatic birds.Male and female loons have identical plumage. Plumage is largely patterned black-and-white in summer, with grey on the head and neck in some species. All have a white belly. This resembles many sea-ducks (Merginae) – notably the smaller goldeneyes (Bucephala) – but is distinct from most cormorants which rarely have white feathers, and if so usually as large rounded patches rather than delicate patterns. All species of divers have a spear-shaped bill.
Males are larger on average, but relative size is only apparent when the male and female are together.
In winter plumage is dark gray above, with some indistinct lighter mottling on the wings, and a white chin, throat and underside. The species can then be distinguished by certain features, such as size and colour of head, neck, back and bill, but often reliable identification of wintering divers is difficult even for experts – particularly as the smaller immature birds look similar to winter-plumage adults, making size an unreliable means of identification.
Gaviiformes are among the few groups of birds in which the young moult into a second coat of down feathers after shedding the first one, rather than growing juvenile feathers with downy tips that wear off as is typical in many birds. This trait is also found in tubenoses (Procellariiformes) and penguins (Sphenisciformes), both relatives of the loons.
Ecology
(Ontario, Canada)]] Loons are excellent swimmers, using their feet to propel themselves above and under water while their wings provide assistance. Because their feet are far back on the body, loons are poorly adapted to moving on land, and usually avoid going onto land, except when nesting.All loons are decent fliers, though the larger species have some difficulty taking off and thus must swim into the wind to pick up enough velocity to become airborne. Only the Red-throated Diver (G. stellata) can take off from land. Once airborne, their considerable stamina allows them to migrate long distances southwards in winter, where they reside in coastal waters. Loons can live as long as 30 years.
Food and feeding
Loons find their prey by sight. They eat mainly fish, supplemented with amphibians, crustaceans and similar mid-sized aquatic fauna. Specifically, they have been noted to feed on crayfish, frogs, snails, salamanders and leeches. They prefer clear lakes because they can more easily see their prey through the water. The loon uses its pointy bill to stab or grasp prey. They eat vertebrate prey headfirst to facilitate swallowing, and swallow all their prey whole.To help digestion, loons swallow small pebbles from the bottoms of lakes. Similar to grit eaten by chickens, these gastroliths may assist the loon's gizzard in crushing the hard parts of the loon's food such as the exoskeletons of crustaceans and the bones of frogs and salamanders. The gastroliths may also be involved in stomach cleaning as an aid to regurgitation of indigestible food parts.
Loons may inadvertently ingest small lead pellets, released by anglers and hunters, that will contribute to lead poisoning and the loon's eventual death. Jurisdictions that have banned the use of lead shot and sinkers include but are not limited to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, some areas of Massachusetts, Yellowstone National Park, Great Britain, Canada, Michigan, and Denmark.
Reproduction
Gaviidae nest during the summer on freshwater lakes and/or large ponds. Smaller bodies of water (up to 0.5 km²) will usually only have one pair. Larger lakes may have more than one pair, with each pair occupying a bay or section of the lake.Loons build their nests close to the water, preferring sites that are completely surrounded by water such as islands or emergent vegetation. Loons use a variety of materials to build their nests including aquatic vegetation, pine needles, leaves, grass, moss and mud. Both male and female build the nest and incubate jointly for 28 days. If the eggs are lost, the pair may re-nest, usually in a different location.
Despite the roughly equal participation of the sexes in nest building and incubation, analysis has shown clearly that males alone select the location of the nest. This pattern has the important consequence that male loons, but not females, establish significant site-familiarity with their territories that allows them to produce more chicks there over time. Sex-biased site-familiarity might explain, in part, why resident males fight so hard to defend their territories.
Most clutches consist of two eggs, which are laid in May or June, depending upon latitude. Loon chicks are precocial, able to swim and dive right away, but will often ride on their parents' back during their first 2 weeks to rest, conserve heat, and avoid predators.
Chicks are fed mainly by their parents for about six weeks but gradually begin to feed themselves over time. By 11 or 12 weeks, chicks gather almost all of their own food and have learned to fly.
Biologists, especially from Chapman University, have extensively studied the mating behavior of the Common Loon (G. immer). Contrary to popular belief, pairs seldom mate for life. Indeed, a typical adult loon is likely to have several mates during its lifetime because of territorial takeover. Each breeding pair must frequently defend its territory against "floaters" (territory-less adults) trying to evict at least one owner and seize the breeding site. Territories that have produced chicks in the past year are especially prone to takeovers, because nonbreeding loons use chicks as cues to indicate high-quality territories. One-third of all territorial evictions among males result in the death of the owner; in contrast, female loons usually survive. Birds that are displaced from a territory but survive usually try to remate and (re)claim a breeding territory later in life.
Etymology and taxonomy
The European Anglophone name "diver" comes from the bird's habit of catching fish by swimming calmly along the surface and then abruptly plunging into the water. The North American name "loon" likely comes from either the Old English word lumme, meaning lummox or awkward person, or the Scandinavian word lum meaning lame or clumsy. Either way, the name refers to the loon’s poor ability to walk on land. The scientific name Gavia refers to seabirds in general.The scientific name Gavia was the Latin term for the Smew (Mergellus albellus). This small sea-duck is quite unrelated to loons and just happens to be another black-and-white seabird which swims and dives for fish. It is not likely that the ancient Romans had much knowledge of loons, as these are limited to more northern latitudes and since the end of the last glacial period seem to have occurred only as rare winter migrants in the Mediterranean region.
The term gavia was transferred from the ducks to the loons only in the 18th century. Earlier naturalists referred to the loons as mergus (the Latin term for diving seabirds of all sorts) or colymbus, which became the genus name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by Carl Linnaeus) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genus" Colymbus referred to loons or grebes abounded, with North American ornithologists using the genus name for grebes and European ones, following Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Richard Bowdler Sharpe, for divers. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature tried to settle this issue in 1956 by declaring Colymbus a suppressed name unfit for further use and establishing Gavia, created by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1788, as the valid genus name for the loons. However, the situation was not completely resolved even then, and the following year the ICZN had to act again to prevent Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot's 1818 almost-forgotten family name Urinatoridae from overruling the much younger Gaviidae. Nowadays, even though some eminent ornithologists such as Pierce Brodkorb tried to keep the debate alive at first, the ICZN's solution has been found very satisfactory.
Systematics and evolution
All living species are placed in the genus Gavia. Phylogenetically, the 5 living species can be arranged as follows:or Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) in winter plumage]] Basal lineage
Black-throated lineage
Black-headed lineage
Relationships
penguin ancestor Waimanu resembled loons in some aspects of its head and bill, but it was already flightless and used its feet for steering rather than propulsion]]The loons were formerly often considered to be the most ancient of the northern hemisphere bird families; this idea grew basically out of the perceived similarity of shape and (probably) habits between loons and the entirely unrelated extinct Cretaceous order Hesperornithiformes. In particular Enaliornis, which was apparently an ancestral and plesiomorphic member of that order, was sometimes used to support claims of Albian (Early Cretaceous) Gaviiformes.More recently, it has become clear that the Anseriformes (waterfowl) and the Galliformes are the most ancient groups of modern birds. It is possible, though not at all well-supported, that these were distinct by the end of the Albian 100 million years ago (Ma). Loons belong to a more modern radiation. They were once believed to be related to grebes, which are also foot-propelled diving birds, and both species were once classified together under the order Colymbiformes. However, as recently as the 1930s, it was determined that the two groups are not that closely related at all and are merely the product of convergent evolution and adapted in a similar way to a similar ecological niche. The similarity is so strong that even the most modern cladistic analyses of general anatomical features are easily misled into grouping loons and grebes.
The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy still allied the loons with the grebes in its massively paraphyletic "Ciconiiformes", and it is almost certain that the relationships of loons lie with some of the orders placed therein. Namely, other recent authors have considered loons to share a rather close relationship with seabirds such as penguins (Sphenisciformes), tubenoses (Procellariiformes), waders (Charadriiformes) – and perhaps the newly-discovered clade Mirandornithes which unites grebes (Podicipediformes) and their closest living relatives, the flamingos (Phoenicopteriformes). It is perhaps notable that some early penguins had skulls and beaks that were in many aspects similar to those of the known living and fossil Gaviiformes.
Fossil record
or Red-throated Loon (G. stellata), the smallest living Gavia species. Some Miocene members of this genus were smaller still.]] In prehistoric times, the loons had a more southerly distribution than today, and their fossils have been found in places such as California, Florida and Italy. The conflicting molecular data regarding their relationships is not much resolved by the fossil record; though they seem to have originated at the end of the Late Cretaceous like their presumed relatives, modern loons are only known with certainty since the Eocene. By that time almost all modern bird orders are at least strongly suspected to have existed – if not known from unequivocally identified specimens – anyway.Colymboides, the oldest unequivocal gaviiform genus known as of 2009, is widely known from early Priabonian – about 37 million years ago (Ma) in the Late Eocene – to Early Miocene (late Burdigalian, less than 20 Ma) limnic and marine rocks of western Eurasia north of the Alpide belt, between the Atlantic and the former Turgai Sea. It is usually placed in the Gaviidae already, but usually in a subfamily Colymboidinae, with the modern-type loons making up the Gaviinae. But the Colymboides material is generally quite distinct from modern loons, and may actually belong in a now-extinct family of primitive gaviiforms. Furthermore, the supposed genus could well be paraphyletic, so that for example Dyspetornis – which is now contained therein – might have to be separated again. A leg of an undescribed small diver was found in the Late Oligocene deposits at Enspel (Germany); it too may or may not belong to Colymboides. Of the crown genus Gavia, nearly ten prehistoric species have been named to date, and about as many undescribed ones await further study. The genus is known from the Early Miocene onwards, and the oldest members them are rather small (some are smaller than the Red-throated Diver). Throughout the late Neogene, the genus by and large follows Cope's Rule.
List of fossil Gavia Gavia sp. (Early-Middle Miocene of E USA) Gavia egeriana Švec, 1982 (Early Miocene of Czechoslovakia ?and Cheswold, Delaware, USA –? Yorktown Early Pliocene of Lee Creek Mine, South Carolina, USA) Gavia schultzi Mlíkovský, 1998 (Middle Miocene of Sankt Margarethen, Austria) Gavia sp. (Calvert Middle Miocene ?or Pleistocene of Maryland, USA) – same as Gavia cf. immer below? Gavia spp. (Middle Miocene of Steinheim, Germany) – three species Gavia brodkorbi Howard, 1978 (Late Miocene of Orange County, USA) Gavia moldavica Kessler, 1984 (Late Miocene of Chişinău, Moldova) Gavia paradoxa Umanska, 1981 (Late Miocene of Čebotarevka, Ukraine) Gavia concinna Wetmore, 1940 (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of W and E USA)
"Gavia" portisi from the Late Pliocene of Orciano Pisano (Italy) is known from a cervical vertebra that may or may not have been from a loon. If so, it was from a bird slightly smaller than Common Loon. Older authors were quite sure the bone was indeed from a Gavia and even considered G. concinna a possibly junior synonym of it. This is now regarded as rather unlikely due to the quite distinct range and age. Interestingly, the Early Pliocene Gavia skull from Empoli (Italy) was referred to G. concinna, and thus could conceivably have been of "G." portisi if that was indeed a diver. The holotype vertebra may now be lost, which would make "G." portisi a nomen dubium.
In addition, there are some older fossils that are sometimes assigned to the Gaviiformes. From the Late Cretaceous, the genera Lonchodytes (Lance Formation, Wyoming) and Neogaeornis (Quinriquina Formation, Chile) have been described; both are usually allied with orders which are considered related to loons. In particular the latter is still sometimes explicitly proposed as a primitive loon as they both were initially, but other authors consider Neogaeornis a hesperornithiform; note however that neither Gaviiformes nor Hesperornithiformes are known from the Southern Hemisphere or anywhere near it. Lonchodytes was more certainly quite close to loons, but probably closer still to some of the loons' relatives. Of similarly doubtful validity and surrounded by considerable dispute is the supposed Late Cretaceous loon Polarornis (Seymour Island, Antarctica). Eupterornis from the Paleocene of Châlons-sur-Vesle (France) has some features reminiscent of loons, but others seem more similar to Charadriiformes such as gulls (Laridae). A piece of a carpometacarpus supposedly from Oligocene rocks near Lusk, Wyoming was described as Gaviella pusilla, but this handbone also shows some similarities to the plotopterids which were flightless wing-propelled divers and if these are apomorphic would make an unconvincing member of the Gaviidae (though it still could be a small-winged gaviiform in an – as of yet undescribed – family "Gaviellidae"): while the carpometacarpus in Gavia is somewhat convergent to that of wing-propelled divers, enabling the wings to be used as rudders for quick underwater turns, Colymboides still had an unspecialized plesiomorphic hand. Parascaniornis, sometimes allied to the loons by early authors, was eventually determined to be a junior synonym of the hesperornithiform Baptornis. A supposed mid-Eocene diver fossil form Geiseltal (Germany) was erroneously assigned to Gavia.
In popular culture
The Common Loon is the provincial bird of Ontario and is depicted on the Canadian one-dollar coin, which has come to be known affectionately as the "loonie". It is also the official state bird of Minnesota. Mercer, Wisconsin promotes itself as the "Loon Capital of the World".
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