{"id":48520,"date":"2026-05-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48520"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:43:25","slug":"the-alay-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-alay-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alay Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In summer, the vibrant colours of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alay_Valley\">Alay Valley<\/a><\/strong> in southern Kyrgyzstan are home to a wide variety of bird species. The valley has been recognised as an Important Bird Area by the NGO <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BirdLife_International\">BirdLife International<\/a><\/strong>. A few isolated yurts can be spotted here and there, a sign of life amidst this spectacular natural landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits : Etienne de Vaumas (France)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In summer, the vibrant colours of the Alay Valley in southern Kyrgyzstan are home to a wide variety of bird species. The valley has been recognised as an Important Bird Area by the NGO BirdLife International. A few isolated yurts can be spotted here and there, a sign of life amidst this spectacular natural landscape. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4927,2578,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-alay-valley","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48524,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48520\/revisions\/48524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}