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Sat 11, February

The patriots

TEHRAN — A female stork and her mate who stay in the town all year round even during cold seasons are well-known as patriots among locals in the western city of Marivan, Kordestan province. Once again human beings throwaway culture ruined an animal’s life. In this case one of the female stork’s long legs got hurt with some kind of trash wrapped around them and resulted in her inability to fly properly for long distances. Her crippling condition continued to haunt her as she was not able to build a perfect nest for her four newly hatched chicks and sadly the nest fell down by the wind storm and the four baby storks died. According to the locals the female stork got pretty depressed and refused to migrate during winter and opt to stay in the town all year round. Her faithful mate also stood up for her and now the two who have stuck together for five years are pretty well known among the locals as the patriots who would never leave their hometown. Locals deem their passionate love for each other incredible. Zarivar Lake, also known as Zaribar, is a major tourist attraction in Marivan which is also home to storks during warm seasons. Tehran Times/ Azin Haghighi

Despite freezing weather and rather long periods of snow the patriots keep staying in their nest. Storks tend to build their nests high.  During warm seasons some 5,000 storks wing their ways to Zaribar Lake. They used to make their nests around the lake mountainous areas, however locals started to build nests for them in the town and currently many of them live in the nests inside the city. Locals keep close tabs on the patriots and provide them with food particularly during winter and take care of their nest. The patriots make peace with their situation and live in harmony with the locals. There are tens of stork nests all through the town which are vacant and waiting for the storks to come back next year. The female stork is flying over the town. Looking at the trees you can see storks’ nests beautifully placed among the dormant branches of the trees. Locals are very protective of the storks and even during winter they take care of the vacant nests and prepare them for the storks’ comeback.

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