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 Translation for 'common loon' from English to Spanish
NOUN   a common loon | common loons
orn.
colimbo {m} grande [ Gavia immer] [también: gran bribón septentrional; bribón común]
common loon [Am.] [also: great northern loon]
Partial Matches
orn.
colimbo {m} chico [Gavia stellata]
red-throated loon [Am.]
orn.
colimbo {m} de Adams [Gavia adamsii]
yellow-billed loon [Am.]
orn.
colimbo {m} ártico [Gavia arctica]
black-throated loon [Am.] [also: Arctic loon]
corriente {adj} [común]common
común {adj}common
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orn.
agachadiza {f} común [Gallinago gallinago]
(common) snipe
orn.
pardillo {m} común [Linaria cannabina]
(common) linnet
bot.T
mostajo {m} común [Sorbus aria; syn. Aria nivea]
(common) whitebeam
bot.
malva {f} (común) [Malva sylvestris]
(common) mallow
orn.
archibebe {m} claro [Tringa nebularia]
(common) greenshank
orn.
negrón {m} común [Melanitta nigra]
(common) scoter
orn.
pinzón {m} vulgar [Fringilla coelebs]
(common) chaffinch
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busardo {m} ratonero / euroasiático [Buteo buteo] [tambien: ratonero común; águila ratonera; aguililla]
common buzzard
orn.
porrón {m} osculado [Bucephala clangula]
(common) goldeneye
orn.
porrón {m} europeo / común [Aythya ferina]
(common) pochard
orn.
tarro {m} blanco [Tadorna tadorna]
(common) shelduck
bot.T
mirasol {m} [Helianthus annuus]
common sunflower
bot.T
boj {m} común [Buxus sempervirens]
common box
sentido {m} comúncommon sense
orn.T
sastrecillo {m} común [Orthotomus sutorius]
common tailorbird
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Usage Examples English
  • The culmen of a juvenile common loon is all dark, while that of the very similarly plumaged juvenile yellow-billed loon is pale towards the tip.
  • The common loon is assessed as a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species.
  • Agent Gavia Immer (sharing a name with the common loon) is stationed by the U.S.
  • Grafton Pond is located within the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests' Grafton Pond Reservation and is an active common loon nesting site.
  • Lakes in central Massachusetts provide habitat for the common loon, while a significant population of long-tailed ducks winter off Nantucket.

  • In 1994, Murdock introduced a Private Member's Bill to make the common loon Ontario's official bird, the "Avian Emblem Act".
  • Lakes in central Massachusetts provide habitat for many species of fish and waterfowl, but some species such as the common loon are becoming rare.
  • Gatineau Park provides habitat for many species of birds including the pileated woodpecker and common loon.
  • The major change to Canadian coinage in the 1980s was the introduction of a circulating $1 coin, widely known as the loonie because of the common loon gracing its reverse.
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