Editing Loon (section)

{{short description|Family of birds}}
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{{Use British English|date=June 2014}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Divers/Loons
| fossil_range = [[Early Miocene]] – Recent {{fossilrange|20.43|0}} 
| image = Gavia immer -Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA -swimming-8.jpg
| image_caption = The [[common loon]] (''Gavia immer'')
| parent_authority = [[Elliott Coues|Coues]], 1903<ref>{{cite book|title=Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology|editor=Melville, RV|editor2=Smith, JDD|year=1987|publisher=ICZN|url=https://archive.org/stream/officiallistsind00inte#page/16/mode/1up|page=17}}</ref>
| taxon = Gavia
| authority = [[Johann Reinhold Forster|Forster]], 1788
| type_species = ''[[Gavia immer]]''
| diversity_link = #Systematics and evolution
| diversity = 5 species
| synonyms = Family-level:<br/>
Colymbidae <small>[[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]], 1825 (but see [[#Etymology and taxonomy|text]])</small><br/>
Colymbinae <small>[[Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1831 (but see [[#Etymology and taxonomy|text]])</small><br/>
Urinatores <small>[[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1818</small><br/>
Urinatoridae <small>Vieillot, 1818</small>{{Verify source|date=August 2009}}<!-- ICZN (1957-58). Brodkorb (1963) has "[[Robert Ridgway|Ridgway]], 1887". Maybe Ridgway erected family "Urinatoridae" based on Vieillot's "Urinatores" or "Urinatorides". --><br/>
Urinatorides <small>Vieillot, 1818</small>
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Genus-level:<br/>
''Colymbus'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758 (but see [[#Etymology and taxonomy|text]])</small><br/>
''Urinator'' <small>[[Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1799</small>
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'''Loons''' ([[North American English]]) or '''divers''' ([[British English|British]] / [[Irish English]]) are a group of aquatic [[bird]]s found in much of [[North America]] and northern [[Eurasia]]. All living species of loons are members of the [[genus]] '''''Gavia''''', [[family (biology)|family]] '''Gaviidae''' and [[order (biology)|order]] [[Gaviiformes]].