A diver is a water bird related to the grebe. The name is commonly applied to any bird that is a skillful diver.
7 Facts About The Diver:
- The true divers live chiefly in the Arctic regions, that come south in winter.
- The great northern diver and the red-throated diver are the most common species.
- The former has a white breast and a black back and wings, marked by white spots that present a checkerboard appearance, while the head and neck are glossy black and green, the latter with a collar of white streaks.
- The red-throated diver is duller in its coloring.
- In Scotland this bird is called the rain goose, while in the United States and Canada the great northern diver is generally called the loon.
- The loon migrates as far south as the Great Lakes, and most of the small lonely interior lakes of that latitude have one or two pairs of loons a season. Their cries are peculiarly noisy ones, some of their notes resembling rough, jeering laughter.
- If suddenly startled, especially when they have young in charge, they go through the most astonishing antics on the surface and below the water, trying evidently to distract the attention of an enemy.
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