Relaxing Loon Call At Night, Common Loon Call
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- Relaxing Loon call at nigh, Common Loon Call.
COMMON LOON CALLS AT NIGHT - THIS VIDEO WILL GIVE YOU CHILLS DOWN. Anyone who spends time during summer in northern lake country, the solitary call of the common loon is as much a part of the experience as fresh air.
There are a few different types of loon calls.
For most people, the call of the loon is their first introduction to the species. Loon calls have a distinct, haunting quality that has enchanted humans for centuries. In popular culture, these calls have become a symbol of the wilderness. Loons are most vocal from mid-May to mid-June. They have four main calls which they use to communicate with their families and other loons. Each call has a distinct meaning and serves a unique function.
The wail is most commonly used for long-distance communication between mated pairs of loons. Loon pairs may also wail to one another as they begin to engage with an intruding loon. During periods of high stress, such as when encountering a perceived threat to its nest or chicks, a loon may give a more frantic sounding wail. In these situations, the wail will typically have three or more syllables and may be interspersed with other calls that denote stress, such as the tremolo or the yodel. The wail is frequently heard during night chorusing.
Only male loons yodel. The yodel is typically given whenever a male loon feels threatened, including during aggressive territorial interactions with other loons, when eagles or other predators are nearby, or when a loon’s chicks or nest are closely approached by humans. Male loons often extend their necks flat over the water’s surface while yodeling in order to better project the call.
While the call of the loon is one of the most well-known characteristics of the species, it is not the only interesting aspect of their biology. When you are done listening to the loon sounds, click on other menu items to learn more about these fascinating birds.
Depending on the time of day, the loon's call ranges from a sound somewhere between a yodel and a laugh, to a plaintive wailing that can be heard for long distances across the water. The expressions "looney", or "crazy as a loon" are often related to the behavior of this large water bird. Loon calls can sound a little eerie at times but they can also be very peaceful, meditative and relaxing.
About two times larger than a mallard duck, a mature common loon sports a formal black and white appearance that is as highly recognized as its call. The loon's head and pointed bill are black and offset by startling red eyes. The neck features a collar of short white vertical stripes. The long body is checkered black and white on top and the underside is a silvery-white.
Rarely seen anywhere but on more temperate coastal areas during winter, the loon becomes hardly recognizable with a dull grey body, a dingy white throat, and brownish eyes during this season.
The loon's body is long and heavy with legs placed well to the rear, it is extremely clumsy and slow on land. Legends of First Nations people refer to the loon as the bird with a broken back. Other than to construct a nest and incubate eggs, the loon lives its entire life afloat or in the air.
But for what they lack in mobility on land, loons make up on water as powerful swimmers and highly skilled divers. Loons are known to dive to depths of 15 meters or more in search of a meal.
Though swift fliers once in the air, loons require a long splashing run to get their heavy bodies airborne. They are equally awkward at landings, slapping down at high speed and plowing water in front to stop themselves.
It's probably for this reason that alarmed loons rarely take to the air. Instead, they make themselves almost invisible by submerging their bodies until just their heads and bills are showing. When threatened further they will dive quickly and surface a safe distance away, continuing this behavior until they have frustrated the pursuer.
Courting behaviors are often raucous events that involve much splashing and frenzied running across the water but are sometimes alternated with a complete change of pace in the form of slow ballet-like displays. Nests are usually started in June and are generally constructed with pieces of floating vegetation and placed on a sheltered point directly on the water's edge so the nesting loon can quickly reach the water when threatened.
Masters at deception, loons are rarely seen near their nests. To protect the nest they desert it well before a predator arrives and distracts the intruder by appearing far out on the water.
Usually, two dark greenish or brownish eggs camouflaged with darker spots are laid and both birds take shifts on the nest, incubating for about 30 days. When hatched, young loons are thickly covered in dark brown down and can swim immediately, though they are frequently seen riding on their parent's backs during their first few weeks.
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Aurora, Maine.
Thank you.
Truly one of the most beautiful sounds in nature.
Couldn’t agree more
Much agreement.
I find it to be scary
@@SNESpaghetti That's an interesting reaction. "Mournful," maybe, but scary?
You got that right
This sound evokes so much nostalgia, warmth, love and peace. The call of the loon brings me back 30 years to being a kid at a northwoods resort with my entire family.
My grandma passed over this winter, and my grandfather passed all the way back in 1991.
One of their favorite things to do was sit along on a pier, watch the sun begin to escape behind the tall trees, and listen to the loon’s wail.
I can only hope those moments captured in time exist infinitely. The soft sound of the water around the dock, distant laughs of my cousins playing while dinner is coming off the grill. My Grandpa and Nonny sitting together on the pier watching the sun begin to set and the loon calling out from across the lake. This single bird call brings all of the emotions to mind and heart. It’s beautiful
That was a great comment thanks for sharing that.
Beautiful memories, thank you for sharing
What a wonderful comment. I’m sure it looks totally different, but while reading what you wrote and what I pictured in my mind was beautiful and I wish I could go to such a place.
@@HVACR22 Thanks dude! Appreciate ya!
Beautiful comment, i share similar memories as you
I used to live in Minnesota. One of my favorite memories was camping up in the Boundary Water Canoe Area wilderness. And falling asleep to these calls. The comfort it brings me is deep.
Did you ever go to Birch lake in Babbitt or mostly stay near Ely? I miss MN so much
The sounds of loons help me reconnect to my ancestors who respected nature.
Same with me. John
This is the feeling I get omfg thank you so much for putting it into words so I don’t have to type an essay to explain it
our ancestors didn't speak of "nature" as something separate, they didn't hold the false concept that they were apart from it. literally everything including themselves was "nature" so there was no need of the word
@@Cynlouwho85 To be fair, we are a part of nature. Just like the beaver and the grizzly bear, we build houses to live in. Sure we are not animals, but we are still living creatures living amongst nature. We just forget that our houses and cities are surrounded by nature and are in nature. We live in nature, even in the biggest cities.
@@blenderbachcgi we are animals LMAO. Not wild animals though. We're mammals , and a species of primate.
We have loons on our lake and their call is ethereal. We love hearing them at dusk and in the very early morning.
I love it too glad you enjoyed it
I listen to this at night before i go to sleep with volume just audible enough to hear like i was out on a northern lake. So calming. God broke the mold when he created these creatures.
So do I...
Hearing this call again reminds me of my childhood growing up when my family and I would go camping up near Cadillac in Michigan, my uncle lived near a campground on a lake and although we’d camp a lot, it was the moments of late evenings or early mornings when my dad and uncle would be messing about and just sitting down by the lake smoking cigarettes and just enjoying the view.
Just standing there watching them enjoy the sounds of nature was something else, which unfortunately my uncle passed away two years ago and whenever I hear this damn bird, it always takes me back to when I was young, with no worries, and didn’t have responsibilities.
Damn I miss it 🥹
That's awesome
...it reminds me of camping up in Maine
I, a Florida native, spent a month out in the deep woods of Maine a few years back. Every night I fell asleep to the loon call and ever since I have missed it so much. To my surprise, I heard one loon call this morning in the woods of Florida, which I have spent plenty of time in, never experiencing this bird here. Had to come to listen to more of it
I think the haunting calls of the Loon reach something deep inside me, just like the howling of wolves do. I also consider myself very lucky to have a summer place in northern NY State, where I get to go to sleep each night to the calls of loons "talking" across the lake.
Yes you’re really lucky
I used to live in Northern Ontario , Wabigoon Lake and now living in Europe . I miss this sound of loon so much.
Hearing this makes me think of the boundary waters
Going there this summer at age 13 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😆😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 makes me think of my grandparents cabin in class county
Bilateral lunes
@@brendaguzman7906
Learn to spell. Loons. Not lunes.
I was just there before they closed and it was majestic. You get so close to nature, it’s beautiful.
Fantastic, I love all their different calls and hope we can preserve our loons for ever
I have canoed In Ontario for more than 50 years, mostly Algonquin. The loon is my favourite sound!
Mostly where I heard them too. Camping in Ontario almost every summer as a kid. Miss this so much.
i love algonquin!
I love it as well
Turtle Flambeau Flowage
I listen to the loons on lake glenville in North Carolina every night there's so mysterious and haunting but beautiful.
French Canadians have a sentence for them:
When loons come to a lake, the lake is healthy.
;)
😌😉 From your southern neighbor ✌
Canadians are fucked up in the ass by muslims those days.
Miss this sound, heard it every summer growing up, the Adirondack mountains are extravagant! Amazing nature and beauty!
I worked at a Boy Scout camp where loons lived on the lake. This video immediately makes me feel like I’m home, they sound so pretty.
When I was a boy Scout a few years back I went the boundary waters and canoed and portaged and this is one of my most memorable moments of that experience. Also having a Canadian mounty check us out and get our papers as soon as we set up camp the first night. It was all a very fun and memorable experience
Were you a Charlie guide? I was 1998-2002 and 2005. Miss the loons singing me to sleep in the tent.
First time I have ever heard a loon was at Halliburton Scout Reservation, about a 3 hour drive northeast of Toronto, CA. Haven’t heard a loon since, as there are no loons where I live unfortunately. But absolutely loved the sound!
I always hear the Loons all the time in Maine. So peaceful at night.
I love Loon calls. Thanks so much from Brazil🙏❤
Summer of 2021 me and my friends went to Rock Lake in Algonquin, hearing these calls at night is something I will hopefully always remember.
I love the Beautiful deep down in my soul sound of the Loons soothing calming love from Yvonne Mullion Cornwall England 🏴
This is the best loon video on the web
They Literally Speak to Each other...Every Call carries a different meaning...I miss hearing that! ❤ Thank You!
Amazing Birds Loons Are And There Very Beautiful in colors and sounds😍🥰😻💖
I love sleeping with my windows open in northern Michigan. It lulls me right to sleep.
I remember the first time I heard loons as a youth. The wail is the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. I will never forget that trip bc of the loons’ wailing.
God this reminds me of the cabin I used to visit when I was younger. Some relative's owned it and every year I got to spend a week at their cabin. There would be night's I'd spend out on their porch in the early hour's of the morning just listening to them call. Such nostalgia.
The sound of Northern Ontario: Beautiful! This and the White Throated. How I miss them.
Northern NY, ADKs... And they're making a Comeback! Protected species...❤
This reminds me of our old cabin on Horseshoe Lake in Stark, MN
used to leave my second floor porch door open at night at Echo lake in Vermont to hear these calls. I still miss them.
2:00. Love that segment onwards
6:13
Nothing like early morning on a foggy River or lake with this in the distance
My cottage we have tons they help me sleep at night and they are my early morning alarm as well lol
“Jud! What is that?!”
*shh!*
“…just a loon, that’s all..”
Sometimes dead is betta
Just saw two loons yesterday on a day trip to Kittery Maine. I saw them from my car driving by and was so happy I stopped. Their call is one of a kind and one you can’t mistake.
Just finished camping in the deep algonquin backcountry all i could hear at night were loons, made me so relaxed and lost track of time just listening. Beautiful creatures
Loon's are more active at night specially after sunset
If heartache was a sound.
This is on my bucket list: to experience the loon call in person.
I miss this sound from Merrymeeting Lake NH. It scared me at first since I didn’t know what it was or had never heard it before. But after living g there for a while and was told what it was we would open our windows so we could hear it all the time! It would soothe me to sleep at night.
i remember hearing a similar ambient call like this in a game I played
i loved it
Beautiful sounds.
"Oh, what a loon I am."
- Shirley the Loon
Amazing animals!! with a amazing sound!!
I love that sound, but it's not what I call relaxing... It's haunting, but in a beautiful way
My 5 favorites sounds in the world , loon calls , campfire , paddling , cat purring and when a newborn baby drink some milk , they are a ther-happy for me , the information that you wrote about the loon , it's very interesting , thank you very much ;)
Indeed nature is giant magnanimous grandeur and also mysterious soothing.
Nature looks and sounds so beautiful
this really helped me calm down
Thank you meditation zone 😁
Thank you. I appreciate your support
Lovely. TYSM.
We had a cottage when I was kid that we would stay all summer long. I loved waking up at 6am to the sound of the loons.
It sounds so beautiful and peaceful on a lake in the evening, unless your tent is close to the lake and one goes off right near you. Then it sounds like A GHOST!!!!
So Soothing ❤️
The bird at 0:49 really just said fuck it and gave it his all
Love this!!❤
Does anyone else get like Northern Minnesota on the lake vibes when they hear this?
And if any other Minnesotan reads this please let me know.
Me, I do lol. I’m from MN but live down south now. I still call MN home and try to go back every year. Most people down south don’t even know what a loon is
Northern NY...Same! The ADK's!❤
So THIS is where they get the nighttime forest sounds in TV shows
Every time I hear these sounds I always think I'm hearing wolves howling at night🤣
Love their call
1:39 canada goose cameo
Ah, finally. I've been looking for this specific sound and now I can have pleasant sleep and sweet dreams of nature. Minus the viking rampages of course.
During the day it the most beautiful sound, during the night it the most terrifying sound
translation;
"It's dark"
"I'm hungry"
"It's time" ---------"Hey that guys not with us"
"It's dark" ---"Theres some other bird over on this side" ("yeah we should find a better spot")
"0:49 "GET LOST WE WERE HERE FIRST!"
"It's dark"
Hahaha
"Where are You?!"..."I'm over here!"❤
Been searching to find this sound and I found it! Heard it many times in the past, but not since I've been living in the city......hear sirens in the city ,or gunshots!
Perfect wail
❤❤ la maison du lac .. on adore ❤❤❤
I hear these all the time when swimming in the foothills ❤
I can make the sounds of a Loon with just my whistle
This sound is beautiful
Loyal and Faithful Creatures, they are...to their Mates and their Families!❤
Oh, Thank you. I lived in southern Greenland as a child (my father was a greenlender/Inuk). we lived next to a big lake, in Qaqortoq, and I LOVED this sound of the 4 pairs of Loons that were here during the short summer, so my evenings had this beautiful sound. By the way around 5:15 this sound reminds of a seagull?
Someday someone will post a "relaxing" video of loon calls. I love the sound of the long mournful loon call way off in the distance. One screeching cries right in your ear, as if you were right next to them, or in rapid succession cacaphony is hardly relaxing. But thanks for trying. Their mournful distant call is the most beautiful sound on this planet.
The Sandhill crane and the Hermit thrush would give the loon a run for it's money. But I agree with you. I think the loon wins.
@@jamesbentonticer4706 I've found this one to be pretty relaxing when drifting off to sleep... ua-cam.com/video/cRuhbDNFmdg/v-deo.html
@@jamesbentonticer4706 I wasn’t sure what sounds those made. The Sandhill Crane? I don’t know about that, wasn’t the kind of nostalgia or soothe the loon brings. The Hermit Thrush is definitely a beautiful song bird though. The loon just brings this haunting, beautiful call that brings on so much nostalgia if you grew up spending summers in the Northwoods
@@jamesbentonticer4706 the sandhill crane is annoying 😂, fuckers screeched all day long where to used to live
3 days ago at duck lake we saw loons and I heard them to but now I am not at duck lake I am sad but happy I can see my family and not get a snapping turtle on the line lol
What a sound man.
The Pokémon company when making reshiram’s anime roar: Perfect
To be specific they used 0:01 through 0:04
They are beautiful don't hear these in Virginia though
Every movie when they need to portray a place as wild and exotic:
Such a strange sound
I agree
@@meditationzone9638 wolves of the lake
The bird from every video game, looking at you ark and primal carnage
i love this
Awwwwww.
this hits different if you've played The İsle
For sure
Majestic...
I went fishing in Nestor falls and every time I heard the loon
the common loon call is the last thing i think of when i her the word relaxing
Solve this riddle:
I have beautiful garnet red eyes, black & white feathers that are polka-dotted, striped, & checkerboard 🏁; my call sounds like a wolf🐺 howling, a whale🐋🐳 moaning or bellowing, a siren🚨 wailing, or someone playing the flute; I'm great at diving underwater & I land on water like an airplane; But on land, I hop like a bunny rabbit with no front legs; I take my baby loons for a piggyback ride with me for their protection. I'm the state bird of Minnesota & Canada's National Bird; You can mostly find me in Canada & Minnesota. What am I?
I feel like I know Hawthorne after hearing that sound
As beautiful as it is, there's something deeply sad about this sound to me
In every horror movie that takes place in a forest you'll hear this call.
Hahaha hope they don't put this in a horror film.
@@meditationzone9638 "What was that Judd?"
Just a loon that's all Lewis.
Haha
Who’s here from TikTok after learning Doja Cat has this bird call in damn near all of her songs from her recent album?
hey, i've been trying for years to track down a nature sounds album that i used to listen to every night when i was a kid. the loons in your video sound exactly like they did on the tape, only it was just one track on a tape that had wolves and thunderstorms on it too. what source did you use for this track? was it from an album, or just by itself?
Try this video but it's not the one from your childhood because it was released 8 months ago. ua-cam.com/video/4icr-2E7I8g/v-deo.html&ab_channel=YourBlueSkyTimeYourBlueSkyTime
Same! My grandma found a new tape or cd of it because our tape was worn out! I'll ask her
Dan Gibson: Storm on a Wilderness Lake
Dinosaur call.
we now know how the spinosaurus call was made
I came here because of Stephen King's Bag of Bones... after reading that story all I can hear from this is grief, loss, and dread... Sorry Loons.
What is that calling in the background? A loon also?
I shall go there, then😊
vox brought me here.
Honestly the most hauntingly beautiful sound ever. Can you please tell me where you were when this was recorded?