| Divers/Loons Temporal range: Early Miocene – Recent
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| The common loon (Gavia immer) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gaviiformes |
| Family: | Gaviidae Coues, 1903[1] |
| Genus: | Gavia Forster, 1788 |
| Type species | |
| Gavia immer | |
| Diversity | |
| 5 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia. All living species of loons are members of the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae and order Gaviiformes.
- ^ Melville, RV; Smith, JDD, eds. (1987). Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology. ICZN. p. 17.