Leaders: Chris Townend with Tselmeg Tumendelger

HIGHLIGHTS OF TRIP

Pallas’s Cat: Three different encounters, one at night and two during the day. Prolonged views with some great playful behaviour between mother and youngster!

Pallas’s Sandgrouse: Commonly encountered in suitable Steppe habitat allowing some very close views and some impressive numbers with 900+ birds on one day!

Wolf: Two different encounters with three animals. All sightings were recorded during the day and for a prolonged period of time.

Oriental Plover: Great to find a group of 7 birds so late in the season. We enjoyed some close views from our vehicles of at least two birds feeding on the Steppe.

Long-eared Hedgehog: Two wonderful night time encounters including one whilst enjoying dinner as it scuttled past the restaurant window!

Hooded Crane: This is an uncommon visitor to Mongolia and so we were very pleased to find 6 birds at Bayan Lake. This took the total number of Crane species seen during the tour to four; along with Demoiselle, White-naped and Common Crane.

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