Yellow-billed Loon Range Map

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Medium-distance migrant. Most Yellow-billed Loons breeding in Alaska spend the nonbreeding season along the coast of East Asia. Birds nesting in Canada winter mainly along the Pacific Coast of southern Alaska and British Columbia.

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Loons(Order: Gaviiformes, Family: Gaviidae)

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