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conkreetmonkey

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sundayafternoonsurvivor

anthropologist-on-the-loose

Do you understand HOW OFTEN movies/tv shows use one of the common loon calls to create an eerie atmosphere - in a setting where there absolutely should not be loons? Do you understand how jarring it is to hear an out-of-place loon call when you regularly hear them in real life?? This isn't being a huge geek, this is just what it's like when you've lived in common loon habitat.

If you haven't heard them before, listen to this at about the 5 minute mark:

(for some reason I CANNOT FIND a video with just. A simple recording of all 4 different calls)

I get why people want to use them, loon calls are way up there on 'unsettling nature noises' scale, but that ALSO means they're highly distinct and identifiable. I'll never get over Kubo and the Two Strings actively showing herons flying overhead and playing a loon call over it.

gentleman-bayleef

OK, not to spoil the fun here but these birds' range does include a significant portion of Europe. They're typically known as the great northern diver rather than common loon but it's the same species