Loon Jokes

There once was a medieval village named Trinsic. This village was being terrorized by a vile monster, the Medicrin. Each night, the Medicrin would stalk down from the hills, and devour one of the villagers. The terrified villagers called a meeting, and decided to pool their money together to hire the great hero Erik.
Erik came and listened to the complaints of the villagers. He consulted his Great Hero's Book of Vile Monsters, and learned that Medicrins love to eat loons. So Erik hunted high and low to find a loon. He found one, captured it, tied it up, and brought it back to the village. He then had the villagers dig a deep pit. Erik threw the loon into the pit, hoping to capture the Medicrin, and slay it.
That night, the Medicrin came... It smelled the loon... But it also smelled DANGER, and it ran off, devouring one of the villagers on the way out.
After calming the villagers, the next day, Erik again consulted his Great Hero's Book of Vile Monsters, and learned that more...

(This joke comes from folk musician Art Thieme, who told it at a
University of Chicago Folk festival)
A ranger was walking through the forest and encountered a hunter
with a rifle and a dead loon.
"What in the world do you think you're doing? Don't you know that
the loon is an endangered bird?"
Instead of answering, the hunter showed the ranger a trunk containing
12 more dead loons.
"What on earth are you going to do with 13 dead loons?" the
ranger asked.
"My family eats them."
"Well, what does a loon taste like?"
"Oh, somewhere between an American Bald Eagle and a Trumpeter Swan..."