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Ayé Raffael

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total species: 11
total photos: 15
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Yellow Wagtail (2011-06-05)
2. Red-necked Phalarope (2011-06-06)
3. Black-winged Pratincole (2011-06-06)
4. Sociable Lapwing (2011-06-06)
6. Dusky Warbler (2011-06-22)
7. Asian Rosy-Finch (2011-06-22)
8. Willow Ptarmigan (2011-06-23)
9. Rock Ptarmigan (2011-06-24)
10. Pallas's Sea-Eagle (2024-10-13)
11. Upland Buzzard (2024-10-13)

recent uploads


2024-10-17. Pallas's Sea-Eagle, Upland Buzzard.

2014-11-05. Black-winged Pratincole, Yellow Wagtail, Dusky Warbler, Asian Rosy-Finch, Sociable Lapwing, Dusky Warbler.

2012-09-27. Willow Ptarmigan, Rock Ptarmigan, Willow Ptarmigan, Red-necked Phalarope, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.

recent comments


2024-12-19. to photo # 01260001701 (Upland Buzzard)

Игорь Фефелов: Не всё смог разобрать, но в целом так: Крупнее, чем в среднем об.курганник. Телосложение выглядит тяжелым. Выраженные темные подусники , достигающие [....]


2024-12-18. to photo # 01260001701 (Upland Buzzard)

Анатолий: Классная зарисовка и наверняка очень полезная информация. А может кто-нибудь объяснить/перевести о чём идёт речь?


2024-10-17. to photo # 01260001601 (Pallas's Sea-Eagle)

Анна Ясько: Very interesting observation. Raffael, thank you for sharing the information.


2024-10-17. to photo # 01260001601 (Pallas's Sea-Eagle)

Raffael Ayé: Кстати, мой текст переведен Google Translate. Надеюсь, Google делает хорошую работу...


2024-10-17. to photo # 01260001601 (Pallas's Sea-Eagle)

Raffael Ayé: Всем привет. Извините, что загрузил только набросок, но я предполагаю, что для редкой птицы это лучше, чем отсутствие документации. Не волнуйтесь, [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Oleg F.: все признаки бурой на лицо. Что интересно, единственная пойманная залетная бурая пеночка с Украины относилась к горной Алтайской форме. [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Флeхтнeр Георг Штефан: podgolzowyj pojas, Betula nana, kakoi podwid trudno zkasat

Hallo Raffael, Der Strauch ist ne Betula nana (vielleicht: ssp. rotundifolia) Podgolez-Zone, normalerweise oberhalb tausendachthundert.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Олег Белялов: Hi Raffael! I wrote that to me is unclear as you could confuse a Dusky Warbler. In the photo the bird is similar to a Booted Warblers. I assumed that the bird is photographed in the steppe, near a Sociable Lapwing. But in a photo the dwarfish birch Betula [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001501 (Dusky Warbler)

Коваленко Андрей: Really, fuscatus.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Ayé Raffael: Oleg, are you asking about the plant species, on which the bird is perched? I am not a good botanist. Maybe it's a species of birch, Betulus spec.? It is high altitude shrub, less than 1m high.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Коваленко Андрей: Yes, it would be good to look at other photos...


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Raffael Ayé: Hi guys. Sorry I have to write in English. I can understand Russian at least partly (70%), but I can't write in Russian.No, this is definitely a Dusky Warbler, Ph. fuscatus. The eyestripe is not very dark in this individual, but it is broad. Hippolais [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001301 (Sociable Lapwing)

Анатолий Таран: ... и властвуй! :-)


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Олег Белялов: Я тоже вижу бормотушку - всё её, прежде всего портрет. Можно было бы подумать, что птица снята в степи, там же где кречётка и степная тиркушка, [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

B.Gubin: Андрей прав, бормотушка.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001301 (Sociable Lapwing)

Коваленко Андрей: Аскар, разделяй...


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Коваленко Андрей: Че-та на Hippolais caligata больше похожа...


2013-10-14. to photo # 01260000301 (Rock Ptarmigan)

Олег Белялов: Точка находки на карте поставлена неправильно - левый берег Бухтарминского водохранилища. В тексте указан Урыль (а это Бухтарминская долина), [....]


2012-09-27. to photo # 01260000101 (Willow Ptarmigan)

Isabekov Askar: Raffael. I am very happy to your participation on our project.


rare birds records


Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

© Vasilii Bastaev
2026-05-08
Karakol lake, Mangystau

The second record of a rare migratory species this season.


Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

© Qanatbek Kenzhegulov
2026-04-14
Aktau, Mangystau region

A rare passage species in Kazakhstan. The most recent photographic record in the country was made on 21 April 2022 in the Suzak District of Turkestan Region (Martin Grienenberger; see the website gallery). In Mangystau Region, only two records supported by photographic evidence are known from recent decades of the 21st century: 20–24 May 2009 in the Kenderli area (Neve et al., 2010) and the present observation.


Northern Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

© Alexandr Fedulin
2026-03-30

A new species for the Teniz-Korgalzhinsky region. The first photographic confirmation on the website for the Kazakh Uplands. Recorded on March 28 and 30 in different parts of the village.


Northern Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

© Margarita Davydova
2021-04-02
First president's park, Almaty

The first photo recording of a Northern Bullfinch in Almaty on the website is a rare sighting for a region where they were previously observed during wintering in the mid-20th century and have now become only occasionally encountered.

more rarities...

recent video

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Northern Hawk Owl
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Great White Egret
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Blyth's Reed Warbler
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Great White Egret
(Anna Yasko)
Common Kestrel
(Anna Yasko)

2025-03-23
Common Sparrowhawk
(Ksenia Serbina)
Great Tit
(Ksenia Serbina)

2025-02-07
Arctic Loon
(Irina Kuryanova)

2025-02-06
Red Crossbill
(Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

2025-01-07
Eurasian Penduline Tit
(sergey izoya)

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Common Tern
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more video...

unidentified birds


2026-06-02

Bassel Abi Jummaa: booted eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)

2026-06-02

Bassel Abi Jummaa: Mostly a sedge warbler Anna . (Acro schoenobaenus )

2026-06-02

Bassel Abi Jummaa: OK great . Thanks Anna

2026-06-02

Анна Ясько: Кряквы.

2026-06-02

Bassel Abi Jummaa: Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus Dometurum )

more unidentified birds...