# Ardea herodias -Illinois, USA -flying-8

- By: PhotoBobil
- Date: 2011-03-19
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Heron 21 Uploaded by Snowmanradio
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardea_herodias_-Illinois,_USA_-flying-8.jpg)
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A Great Blue Heron flying with nesting material in Illinois, USA. There is a colony of about 20 heron nests in trees nearby.