THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER

DIVE INTO UNKNOWN

- With Lily Woods

SOME birds just immediately bestow a sense of gravity and power simply by hearing their names.

The Great Northern Diver inspires awe just hearing it... but are they worth the title? And are they so respected in the rest of the world?

Friends, let's take a dive!

This species' scientific name “Gavia immer” is a strange one, as no one is quite sure what it means, since it was cobbled together from northern European local names for the bird.