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Sorry for not responding sooner. I live in Lakewood, near Denver Colorado and the foothills of the Rockies. There is a bike path around a lake nearby with more bird diversity than I have seen elsewhere. It's great!  Anyway, I notice that Whatbird.com has changed the illustration to show the white cheeks and one other post pointed out that ...

Hi, I'm just an amateur, but either the female sandhill crane has a different crown and cheeks than the male, or I'm looking at a bird that I can't find in WhatBird. In all respects, the bird appears to be a sandhill crane except that its cheeks are white and its crown black! Also, the bird I've seen sits perched on a short pole sticking up in ...