Loons are on the move, winging their way from Canada and the northern states to the oceans.
Juveniles are leaving and most adults are already gone. Joe Kaplan and Keren Tischler, Journey North's loon experts, spent this spring, summer and fall studying loons. Right now they're finishing up field work and getting ready to migrate themselves, all the way to Madagascar for another research project, but Joe made time to talk to Journey North about some of the work they've done and things they've learned this year. Loons are banded at night, lured in with recordings. In fall and winter on the ocean, scientists use loon hoot or wail calls.