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title: "Mobelha-de-bico-amarelo"
description: "Gavia adamsii — Aves. The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the white-billed diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/yellow-billed-loon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mobelha-de-bico-amarelo

> Gavia adamsii — Aves. The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the white-billed diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family.

- Scientific name: *Gavia adamsii*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios), `sea` (Mar e costa), `arctic` (Ártico)
- iNaturalist observations: 1234
- Wikidata: [Q208328](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208328)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4622](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4622)

## Names

- en: Yellow-billed Loon
- de: Gelbschnabeleistaucher
- es: Colimbo de Adams
- fr: Plongeon à bec blanc
- it: Strolaga beccogiallo
- nl: Geelsnavelduiker
- pt: Mobelha-de-bico-amarelo
- pl: Nur białodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

US (733), CA (175), NO (47), RU (37), GB (36), KR (16), DE (14), NL (14), AT (10), PL (10), CN (5), DK (5)

## Summary

The yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the white-billed diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family. Breeding adults have a black head, white underparts and a chequered black-and-white mantle. Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white. Its main distinguishing feature is the long straw-yellow bill, which, because the culmen is straight, appears slightly uptilted.
It breeds in the Arctic and winters mainly at sea along the coasts of the northern Pacific Ocean and northwestern Norway; it also sometimes overwinters on large inland lakes. It occasionally strays well south…

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

## Photo

![Mobelha-de-bico-amarelo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-billed-loon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193331702

## Machine access

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