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Gavia pacifica

Pacific Loon

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 422575ITIS 174475key itis:174475
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2026-08-05: worms_id 422575 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

calcofi:seabirds

The Pacific loon or Pacific diver is a medium-sized member of the loon, or diver, family.W CalCOFI holds 562 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2022.R

562
observations
562
records
562
sampling events
1989–2022
years
1
datasets
Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica), aka Pacific Diver
Photo · Tim Bowman, USFWS Originally uploaded by User Kingturtle on en.wikipedia · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:174475%22

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.

Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Gavia
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gavia stellata · source
  • Photo · Tim Bowman, USFWS Originally uploaded by User Kingturtle on en.wikipedia · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Pacific loon” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362782434
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird

WikidataiNaturalistGBIFeBird

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 ↗