10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

The Golden Eagle Festival in Olgii (also called Bayan-Ulgii), Mongolia, is full of color and sound. In Act 3, the scene changes from town and crowds to the vast wilderness of far western Mongolia. Hunting in western Mongolia; left to right: Aisholpan’s father, Nurgaiv and Aisholpan and their Golden Eagles.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

The Brown-headed Gull is a bird of Asia, breeding from Turkmenistan to Mongolia, and winters along the coasts of Asia. This gull is closely related to, and necessary to separate from, the Black-headed Gull , a bird familiar to any birder from Europe (or even just anyone from Europe!). Notice the white iris.

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JUNE 8, 2014

This handsome little bird has a wide distribution, roaming from north of the Black Sea over central Asia and way, way into China and Mongolia. The species you will shake your fist at after reading this post is the Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2012

people per sq mi) of any country in the world (Mongolia has the lowest). Namibia is politically stable and a safe country to visit offering spectacular scenery, untouched wildernesses, vast game reserves, superb wildlife and fascinating cultural experiences. It has the second lowest population density (6.6

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APRIL 9, 2013

A vagabond naturalist and environmental educator he’s done a little bit of everything, from small mammal research in Grand Teton National Park and southeast Alaska, to monitoring Bactrian camels in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. He has led field trips and kids’ nature programs in five states.

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JUNE 22, 2023

BirdingAsia has a report on the first Rosy Pipit seen in Mongolia. The Rosy Pipit seems a bit oversold to me as it takes a lot of goodwill to see the rosiness of the species. Being wet seems to help, though. Frankly, I find such reports relatively meaningless, but I guess they give a sense of purpose to the listers of this world.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I probably missed the fossilized remains of a nesting oviraptorid found in Mongolia in 1994, located in the hallway leading to the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs. These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. Like birds.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Birds marked in the Naoli River Basin in Heilongjiang Province, China, wintered along the Jiangsu coastline in China, while Eurasian Spoonbills from two discrete summering areas (in Inner and western Mongolia) overwintered inland in the Yangtze River floodplain of China.”

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MAY 1, 2016

Baicalensis inhabits southern Siberia around lake Baikal and ranges into the northern half of Mongolia. And then you have baicalensis (the 9th form, which means you’ve made it through).

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