Listener Kathleen Herring is one of many writers who suggested that the ultimate Summer Sound is that of loons on a northern lake.

As abnormal as it may be, a loon has taken an affinity to this part of the Susquehanna River and joins all the other independent-minded in Harrisburg.

The loon live streams have helped add to biologists’ understanding of the birds for a decade. Anecdotes pile up over the years, showing different facets of loon behavior. The microphones have picked ...

Why? Because loons, in context, make the coolest sounds in the world. There are four distinct vocalizations in the loon's repertoire, each with a different purpose.

Loon entangled in fishing line rescued in northern Minnesota GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Biologists took a midnight cruise on a northern Minnesota lake to help a loon in distress.

Along with the Wilhelm scream and that part of every movie trailer with a dramatic bass drop, TV and film sound designers love to incorporate the cry of the humble loon into every wilderness scene ...

Project Loon sounds crazy, but like every other initiative out of Google’s mad scientist lab, it’s meant to be a moonshot, not the slow, iterative progress we’ve come to expect in ...