Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gaviidae

loons

WoRMS 136996ITIS 174467key itis:174467

2026-08-05: worms_id 136996 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gavia stellata

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Gaviidae — Photo · Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Loons or divers are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia. All living species of loons are members of the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae, and order Gaviiformes.W CalCOFI holds 926 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R

926
observations: 926
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets: 4
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

G Gavia926

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174467")

Gaviidae

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.