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Stork visits old fisherman friend for 11th year running
BURSA
For the past 11 years, Adem Yılmaz, 69, meets up with a white stork in a village called Eskikaraağaç in Turkey’s northwestern province of Bursa’s Karacabey district.
Yılmaz and the stork’s friendship started when the fowl perched on Yılmaz’s fishing boat at Lake Uluabat and was fed by him.
Since that day, the white stork became a regular on the boat every morning during the half-year it spends in Turkey.
The last visit of the stork named Yaren, which settles on Yılmaz’s boat every time it migrates, was welcomed by residents of Eskikaraağaç, known locally as “the village of storks” and which in 2011 joined the European Stork Villages Network.
Having arrived on time, way-worn Yaren landed on the boat of the fisherman early on March 7, just like in previous years, and ate her first fish.
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“Now, they will be fishing together all summer. Happy 11th anniversary of the reunion; they shall live long,” he noted...
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/stork-visits-old-fisherman-friend-for-11th-year-running-172035
Stork visits old fisherman friend for 11th year running
BURSA
For the past 11 years, Adem Yılmaz, 69, meets up with a white stork in a village called Eskikaraağaç in Turkey’s northwestern province of Bursa’s Karacabey district.
Yılmaz and the stork’s friendship started when the fowl perched on Yılmaz’s fishing boat at Lake Uluabat and was fed by him.
Since that day, the white stork became a regular on the boat every morning during the half-year it spends in Turkey.
The last visit of the stork named Yaren, which settles on Yılmaz’s boat every time it migrates, was welcomed by residents of Eskikaraağaç, known locally as “the village of storks” and which in 2011 joined the European Stork Villages Network.
Having arrived on time, way-worn Yaren landed on the boat of the fisherman early on March 7, just like in previous years, and ate her first fish.
...
“Now, they will be fishing together all summer. Happy 11th anniversary of the reunion; they shall live long,” he noted...