Editing Common loon (section)

=== Folklore ===
The voice and appearance of the common loon has made it prominent in several [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tales. These include an [[Ojibwe]] story of a loon that created the world,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Common Loon: Population Status and Fall Migration in Minnesota|last1=Svingen|first1=Peder H.|last2=Hertzel|first2=Anthony X.|date=2000|publisher=Minnesota Ornithologists' Union|page=1}}</ref> and a [[Mi'kmaq]] saga describing Kwee-moo, the loon who was a special messenger of [[Glooscap]] (Glu-skap), the tribal hero.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCtL2WL0XCYC&pg=PT48|title=The Algonquin Legends Of New England|last=Leland|first=Charles Godfrey|date=2012|publisher=Jazzybee Verlag|isbn=978-3-8496-2265-7 |pages=48|edition=Annotated}}</ref> The tale of the loon's necklace was handed down in many versions among [[Pacific coast|Pacific Coast]] peoples.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast | last1=Stallcup | first1=Rich | last2=Evens | first2=Jules | date=2014 | publisher=University of California Press | isbn=978-0-520-27616-1 | location=Berkeley, CA |page=60}}</ref> The [[Delaware Tribe of Indians|Delaware]] in the east of North America and the [[Buryats]] of Siberia also had creation stories involving the loon.<ref name="Cocker" />

Folk names for the common loon include "big loon", "call-up-a-storm", "greenhead", "hell-diver", "walloon", "black-billed loon", "guinea duck", "imber diver", "ring-necked loon",<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fróðskaparrit 53|last=Bloch|first=Dorete|publisher=Faroe University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-99918-41-03-8|page =53}}</ref> and "ember-goose".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest|last1=Sandrock|first1=James|last2=Prior|first2=Jean C.|date=2014|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-60938-225-4|location=Iowa City, IA| page=63 }}</ref> An old colloquial name from [[New England]] was ''call-up-a-storm'', as its noisy cries supposedly foretold stormy weather.<ref>{{cite journal|last=McAtee|first=W.L|year=1951|title=Bird names connected with weather, seasons, and hours|journal=American Speech | volume=26 | issue=4 | pages=268–278 | doi=10.2307/453005 | jstor=453005 }}</ref> Some old Scottish names such as arran hawk and carara are corruptions of old [[Scottish Gaelic]] [[onomatopoeic]] names representing the bird's call; others, like bishop and ember goose, were used to avoid older names for this sometimes ill-omened bird.{{sfn|Lockwood|1984|pp=24, 30, 39, 58}}

The common loon was eaten in the Scottish Islands from the [[Neolithic]] until the eighteenth century, and its thick layer of fat beneath the skin was used as a cure for [[sciatica]].<ref name= Cocker />