{"id":945016,"date":"2026-10-24T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945016\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:48:10","slug":"why-canadas-common-loon-is-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945016\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Canada\u2019s common loon is in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 2:01<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">The haunting loon call, which many Canadians associate with nightfall in the summer, may become less common as new research suggests \u2018substantial\u2019 population decline in North America. <\/p>\n<p>Canada is home to 94 per cent of the global common loon population, and this new study suggests a 40 per cent average drop in loon chick productivity in 10 of 12 study areas \u2014 including in B.C. and Ontario \u2014 over the past three or so decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 hours agoNewsDuration 2:01 The haunting loon call, which many Canadians associate with nightfall in the summer, may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-945016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}