Rare tropical bird, last seen in Colorado 91 years ago, is hanging out in metro Denver

When longtime birder Patrick O’Driscoll saw a massive tropical bird slowly flying over Denver’s City Park last weekend, he almost couldn’t believe his eyes.

Could it be a sandhill crane? No, that didn’t fit. It wasn’t a great blue heron, either.

“I was dumbfounded that it was a wood stork, which is not supposed to be around here,” O’Driscoll said…

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