[Posted by Chuck Almdale]

Kimball Garrett posted this link on LACoBirds@groups.io, our county bird chat-line. A Yellow-billed Loon – rare in SoCal waters – got tangled in fishing line down near Los Angeles Harbor, and the fine folk at International Bird Rescue in San Pedro came to the rescue. Most people reading this have never seen this species, I’ll bet, which doesn’t much care for waters south of Seattle. At 34″ long it’s a bloody big loon.

Link to IBR blog on the incident.