Gavia
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137057 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Gavia pacifica most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174468")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174468'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 4 taxa · Gavia pacifica most observed
- sp Gavia pacifica Pacific Loon562
- sp Gavia immer Common Loon180
- sp Gavia arctica Arctic Loon143
- sp Gavia stellata Red-Throated Loon41
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Gaviidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gavia stellata · source
- Photo · Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Loon” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370156121
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗