Key Identification Features
- In flight, the red-throated loon has a distinctive profile.
- Its small feet do not extend far past the end of its body, its head and neck droop below the horizontal creating a distinctly hunchbacked shape, and its thin wings are angled backward.
- The lower throat features a necklace-shaped patch made of short parallel white lines.
- They have buffy scaling on the upperparts that is particularly distinct on the scapulars.
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