red-throated diver

English

Red-throated diver

Etymology

From the fact that the species is a diver with a red throat.

Noun

red-throated diver (plural red-throated divers)

1. Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.

Synonyms

• red-throated loon
• whabby

Translations

loon

• Albanian: nori gushëkuq m
• Czech: potáplice malá (cs) f
• Danish: rødstrubet lom c
• Dutch: roodkeelduiker (nl) m
• Faroese: lómur m
• Finnish: kaakkuri (fi)
• French: plongeon catmarin (fr) m
• German: Sterntaucher (de) m
• Greek: κηλιδοβούτι n (kilidovoúti)
• Greenlandic: qarsaaq
• Hungarian: északi búvár (hu)
• Icelandic: lómur (is) m
• Inari Sami: kähtee, kakkârâs
• Italian: strolaga minore
• Latvian: brūnkakla gārgale f
• Lule Sami: gurtte
• Maltese: bugħaddas m
• Navajo: naalʼeełídaakį́ bizééʼ halchíʼígíí
• Norman: cadras m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: gáhkkor
• Norwegian: smålom (no) c
• Russian: краснозо́бая гага́ра f (krasnozóbaja gagára)
• Skolt Sami: kaaʹǩǩi
• Slovak: potáplica malá f
• Southern Sami: gurhtie
• Spanish: colimbo chico m
• Swedish: smålom (sv) c
• Welsh: trochydd gyddfgoch m

Further reading

• red-throated loon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gavia stellata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies