Species
Gavia adamsii (Yellow-billed loon)
Gavia adamsii. Photo: (c) gramandy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the white-billed diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family. Breeding adults have a black head, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle. Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white. The main distinguishing feature from great northern loon is the longer straw-yellow bill which, because the culmen is straight, appears slightly uptilted.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Aves (Birds)
- Order: Gaviiformes (Loons)
- Family: Gaviidae (Loons)
- Genus: Gavia (Loons)
- Species: Gavia adamsii (Yellow-billed loon)
- Genus: Gavia (Loons)
- Family: Gaviidae (Loons)
- Order: Gaviiformes (Loons)
- Class: Aves (Birds)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)



