Brooklyn woman rescues wayward rooster, dubbing him “Elizabeth Warrhen”

He’s a long way from Iowa!

A Park Slope woman rescued a mohawk-topped chicken after she found it roosting on top an inflatable eight-foot Santa outside a restaurant on Thursday night — and named it Elizabeth Warrhen.

Molly Sandley scooped up the cold and hungry bird which had been strutting its stuff along Union Street around 6 p.m., and named it after the female presidential candidate from Massachusetts despite his coiffed white hair more resembling disheveled opponent Bernie Sanders.

But by early the next morning Warrhen’s crowing had “made it clear” that he was “all rooster,” Sandley told The Post.

The woman kept the plucky fowl in her bathroom as she launched efforts to find the owner — including creating an email address “[email protected]”

It’s unclear where the Polish chicken came from. He is believed to be the same bird seen wandering six miles away in Bay Ridge three days earlier.

On December 17, a Bay Ridge resident shared a video to community app Citizen of Warrhen saying they would look after him.

But he was on the lam a few days later when Sandley spotted him as she did her laundry at a laundromat between 6th and 7th avenues, she told Gothamist.

By Saturday, no one had come forward to claim the fabulous-looking bird, which is unsurprising given it is illegal to own a rooster in the Big Apple, no matter how beautiful.

However, in holiday season miracle Sandley was able to re-home Warrhen with friends in Vermont who keep chickens.

“He’s the rare lucky Brooklyn street rooster,” she said.

Despite being a rooster, Warrhen will keep his presidential name.

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