---
title: "Pacific Loon"
description: "Gavia pacifica — Birds. The Pacific loon or Pacific diver (Gavia pacifica) is a medium-sized member of the loon, or diver, family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/pacific-loon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Loon

> Gavia pacifica — Birds. The Pacific loon or Pacific diver (Gavia pacifica) is a medium-sized member of the loon, or diver, family.

- Scientific name: *Gavia pacifica*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 5983
- Wikidata: [Q558990](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q558990)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4621](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4621)

## Names

- en: Pacific Loon
- de: Pazifiktaucher
- es: Colimbo del Pacífico
- fr: Plongeon du Pacifique
- nl: Pacifische parelduiker
- pt: Mobelha-do-pacífico
- pl: Nur pacyficzny

## Countries with the most observations

US (3401), CA (1047), RU (70), MX (65), KR (49), JP (26), DK (13), NL (11), FR (10), ES (9), GB (8), JO (8)

## Summary

The Pacific loon or Pacific diver (Gavia pacifica) is a medium-sized member of the loon, or diver, family.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_loon

## Photo

![Pacific Loon](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-loon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/347980438

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-loon?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).