Yaren is a
white stork
The white stork (''Ciconia ciconia'') is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average from beak tip to en ...
known for his friendship with a fisherman, Adem Yılmaz, living in
Eskikaraağaç village of
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
,
Turkey
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.
Since 2010, the bird leaves
Africa
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each year during his annual migration, flies back in March to the same fisherman in the village on the shore of
Uluabat Lake. Yaren, during the 6 months spent in Eskikaraağaç, a member of European Stork Villages Network, lands on the small boat of Adem Yılmaz every morning; they go fishing together.
The extraordinary friendship with a human and a stork was first photographed by local photographer Alper Tüydeş in 2016. Since then, Tüydeş tracks the duo and their reunion every year has been followed by bird watchers and social media users.
This unusual friendship was filmed as a documentary by Burak Doğansoysal in 2019. The film selected as the winner for "''Best Feature Documentary''" at the 2020 Prague Film Awards.
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A statue of Yaren and the fisherman was erected at the central square of the village. Also, the walls of houses in Eskikaraağaç are adorned with murals and large photos of Yaren.][ In 2022, the municipality, willing to promote the publicity of the small village, installed a video camera next to Yaren's nest in the village for broadcasting a livestream from the spot.][
Since his 9th arrival in 2020, Yaren started bringing his partner to the boat. In March 2021, the reunion of Yaren and his partner;][
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See also
* Klepetan and Malena
*List of individual birds
This is a list of well-known real birds. For famous fictional birds, see list of fictional birds.
* Águia Vitória, a bald eagle who serves as the mascot for Portuguese football club S.L. Benfica
* Albert Ross, an albatross believed to have been ...
References
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External links
Live Broadcast from Stork Yaren's nestYaren (2019)
Burak Doğansoysal's documentary about Yaren
Storks
Fauna of Turkey
Individual storks