In her essay, “Chasing Loons,” Jessica Walden informs us that she did her research on the loons in Oneida County, Wisconsin, in the town of Rhinelander. She states that in Oneida County, there are 1,129 lakes (par. 2). She indicates that she spent three months researching loons, which have five different varieties of. Ms. Walden also indicates that each lake or territory can support only one pair of loons (par. 4).
In paragraph 5, Ms. Walden starts to describe the birds. Some of her descriptions are objective and scientific while some are subjective. Ms. Walden’s objective descriptions are that the loons are territorial, their heads and necks look like the arch of the f-hole on a violin, and they have eyes like rubies. She also mentions that they can dive 200 feet down and stay underwater for two minutes, can see well at the depth, and they eat yellow perch. Ms. Walden also states that they look like they have a checkerboard cape and have solid bones (par.6). In paragraph 7, Ms. Walden gives more objective details of the loons. Some objective …show more content…
Walden states that the birds in their study have some identification tags. The birds were banded with plastic tags, and they also had aluminum bands with ID numbers (par. 6). Ms. Walden mentions that the identification tag is banded on the male loon and not the female. The male gets hurt because it was hooked by a big, six-inch fishing lure, which she tries to catch, but she cannot. Later, Ms. Walden returns to the lake, and she finds out that a wounded loon with a hook in its foot got taken to the vet. She immediately thinks that the bird that got taken to the vest was the male loon, but she sees a bird diving and crying for its mate, so she realizes that it is the banded male and not the female. Ms. Walden realizes that the female bird also got hooked in the same way as the male. In a month, both birds in a territory the size of 400 football fields got hooked in the same way (par.15 to
In paragraph 5, Ms. Walden starts to describe the birds. Some of her descriptions are objective and scientific while some are subjective. Ms. Walden’s objective descriptions are that the loons are territorial, their heads and necks look like the arch of the f-hole on a violin, and they have eyes like rubies. She also mentions that they can dive 200 feet down and stay underwater for two minutes, can see well at the depth, and they eat yellow perch. Ms. Walden also states that they look like they have a checkerboard cape and have solid bones (par.6). In paragraph 7, Ms. Walden gives more objective details of the loons. Some objective …show more content…
Walden states that the birds in their study have some identification tags. The birds were banded with plastic tags, and they also had aluminum bands with ID numbers (par. 6). Ms. Walden mentions that the identification tag is banded on the male loon and not the female. The male gets hurt because it was hooked by a big, six-inch fishing lure, which she tries to catch, but she cannot. Later, Ms. Walden returns to the lake, and she finds out that a wounded loon with a hook in its foot got taken to the vet. She immediately thinks that the bird that got taken to the vest was the male loon, but she sees a bird diving and crying for its mate, so she realizes that it is the banded male and not the female. Ms. Walden realizes that the female bird also got hooked in the same way as the male. In a month, both birds in a territory the size of 400 football fields got hooked in the same way (par.15 to