great northern diver

English

Etymology

From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles).

Noun

great northern diver (plural great northern divers)

1. (UK, Ireland) A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.

Synonyms

• common loon
• great northern loon

Translations

large member of the diver family, Gavia immer

• Albanian: nori i madh m
• Bulgarian: черноклюн гмуркач m (černokljun gmurkač)
• Catalan: calàbria grossa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普通潛鳥／普通潜鸟 (pǔtōng qiánniǎo)

• Danish: islom (da)
• Dutch: ijsduiker (nl)
• Faroese: havgás f, imbrimil m
• Finnish: amerikanjääkuikka (fi)
• French: plongeon huard (fr) m, huard (fr) m, plongeon imbrin (fr) m, huart à collier (fr) m, richepaume (fr) m, imbrim (fr) m
• German: Eistaucher (de) m
• Greenlandic: tuullik
• Hungarian: jeges búvár
• Icelandic: himbrimi (is) m
• Irish: lóma mór m
• Italian: strolaga maggiore
• Japanese: ハシグロアビ (hashiguroabi)
• Lithuanian: ledinis naras
• Navajo: naalʼeełídaakį́ diłhiłígíí
• Norwegian: islom (no)
• Polish: nur lodowiec
• Portuguese: mobelha-grande f
• Russian: черноклю́вая гага́ра f (černokljúvaja gagára)
• Scottish Gaelic: buna-bhuachaille m (Canada)
• Slovak: potáplica veľká f
• Spanish: colimbo grande m
• Swedish: svartnäbbad islom (sv)
• Turkish: buz dalgıcı (tr)
• Welsh: trochydd mawr m
• West Frisian: iisdûker