Heronry
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A Heronry is a breeding ground for herons, sometimes called a heron rookery.
[edit] Notable Heronries
Some of the notable heronries are:
- Cleeve Heronry (grid reference ST463662), in a woodland near the village of Cleeve in North Somerset.
- Hilgay Heronry (grid reference TL635992) is in Norfolk. It is situated in a small copse on the edge of The Fens. An average of c.40 pairs of Grey Heron nests each year at this site, in Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and European Larch (Larix decidua) trees.
- Kaggaladu Heronry is in Karnataka state of India. This heronry, in the Tumkur district of Karnataka, was first made known to the outside world in 1999 by members of the Tumkur-based NGO Wildlife Aware Nature Club[1].
