Tern

I think of terns as waterbirds you see at the shores of large lakes or oceans, but they live spread out over half of the U.S. and Canada during migration and summer months.  Northeastern Illinois is at the far south edge of the common tern's summer breeding grounds.

The waterway where this tern lives meets the needs of shallow water for catching small fish, as well as nesting locations where they will be undisturbed by humans.

This tern hovered and dove into the water several times for fish, but I was not close enough to capture fishing success.