KDVR – Dozens of bird monitors recently flocked to Bromfield to take a rare look at an unprecedented tropical bird in Colorado in a century.
Matt Hvditz has been the birds since he was 10 years old. Tell Fox31 in an interview about the text that he was shocked to see something rare when he visited a local pool on August 20.
Hofditz said he happened to visit Alexis and Michael’s pool “on a whim”, when she caught the attention of a huge white bird with black suite groups.
“I immediately realized this as an unprecedented worry wood, more than 90 years ago! This bird saw himself for the first time by a noble man named Patrick Odrichol flying over City Park in Denver on the seventeenth, but no one could move it. So I was shocked to find that the bird had landed in a pond near my house in Bromfield,” said Hundits.
The last time the vision of the tongue wood was recorded in Colorado in 1934, and before that in 1902, According to the Colorado Bird Records Committee.
“Be only the third time that this bird was seen in Colorado, this is definitely the rarest of seeing it or I saw here at all! Regarding finding something in the urban field, this may be rare as it happens.”
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A rare vision of worrying wood, a tropical bird is usually seen in Florida and Mexico, in Alexx and Michael Nick in Bromfield, Colorado on August 20, 2025. -
A rare vision of worrying wood, a tropical bird is usually seen in Florida and Mexico, in Alexx and Michael Nick in Bromfield, Colorado on August 20, 2025. -
A rare vision of worrying wood, a tropical bird is usually seen in Florida and Mexico, in Alexx and Michael Nick in Bromfield, Colorado on August 20, 2025.
The bird is a citizen of the warmer tropical regions such as Florida, Mexico and South America, and it migrates across some southern states such as Texas, Georgia and Alabama, According to Audubon.org.
Earlier this year, Anhelinga, or a snake, was seen common throughout South and Central America, near Bulder. A researcher at Colorado Parks and the Fox31 wildlife traveler told an email that the Wood Stork case is similar to the case of Anhinga earlier this year.
The researcher said: “This is a state of the bird wandering away from its normal counter and providing a treatment for birds.
The researcher explained that the wooden worry is the only worry that occurs in the United States, which historically feeds on fish in shallow wetlands and was found primarily in Evergels, Florida. It also affected the deterioration of habitats on the region, fears of Rose were included and the wood was inserted as an at risk in the United States
The researcher said that other habitats and protection improvements have helped the species, with the population of education increased to about 20,000. Wood Stork has also expanded the scope of its reproduction into parts of Georgia and South Carolina, and recently to North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama.
“In particular, with the expansion of the population, some individuals are likely to wander outside the basic range, and the wooden vaccine was seen in other states in the West and the Middle West,” said researcher CPW.
The researcher said that the woodwork is the success story of the memorization. It was included in the threatened list in 2014 and was proposed to remove the list of endangered and threatened species in 2023.
Hofditz said that when he saw her, he quickly got the word to the bird community and said he was “looking happy for food on the beach and does not seem to go anywhere.” Within a few hours, he said about 50 people came to see him, and he believed that there have been hundreds of others since then.
It is not known whether the bird is still hanging in the area, but it is likely to migrate soon when it takes the temperatures of cold Denver.
Birds will get thousands of birds with the start of the migration season this month. This Saturday is a coluialo challenge to birds, when birds are invited to compete on their own or in teams in various challenges to know the number of species they can discover. Those who want to participate can Register online And find more information about the various challenges and bars of the boycott On the site.