Great Northern Diver

Gavia immer

Other names:

Common Loon

Family:

Divers

Length:

70cm to 90cm

Wingspan:

127cm to 147cm

Weight:

3.6kg to 4.5kg

About the Great Northern Diver

The great northern diver is the largest of all the UK's divers. Compared to its more common relatives, they have bigger heads and bills.

They are black and white all over, with a dark head with tones of green.

What does a Great Northern Diver eat?

Their diets mainly consist of crustaceans and fish.

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Other birds in the Divers family

Red-Throated Diver

Arctic Loon

One of only five species of Divers or Loons, the northern hemisphere’s Arctic Loon has a particularly spectacular monochrome patternation in its breeding plumage, covering its neck, chest, mantle and scapulars.

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