With every flush, southern Palm Beach County becomes a more attractive destination for America's largest native wading bird.
After struggling through decades of crappy treatment by development, wood storks are finding a new home at a suburban oasis supplied by water washed down drains and flushed through toilets.
There at the site of an old sewage treatment plant, cleaned-up wastewater gets pumped into ponds, boosting the number of plants and fish. That is luring more wood storks and other wading birds to the man-made swamp beside Jog Road, north of Atlantic Avenue, west of Delray Beach.