Mongolia: Birding the Eastern Flyway
May 6 - 21, 2027
Your place on this Venture is reserved with your completed registration and deposit of $500/person are submitted. Deposit may be made via the ‘book now’ button above, or by contacting the Ventures office. We accept credit cards for an additional fee (2.9% for MC, Visa, Discover; 3.9% for AmEx), but you may also pay by bank transfer via our website. If paying by cash, check, or money order (payable to ‘VENTURES BIRDING’), please mail in your payment with a paper registration form to PO Box 1095, Skyland, NC 28776, or contact our office. This Venture is limited to 10 participants.
Mongolia has long been viewed as an exotic destination and we have all heard of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan and their wars and battles across Eastern and Central Asia. This vast country is sparsely inhabited and the open steppes evoke a truly wild land with abundant wildlife and peoples still practicing their unique and classic cultural traditions. Our tour has been designed to hit the highlights and timing of spring migration across this vast inland country. Flocks of Bar-headed and Swan Geese should be moving north, along with Whooper Swan, Garganey and a large assortment of waterfowl, plus we will hear the bugling sounds of Common and Demoiselle Cranes as they also move north.
We will explore the Taiga forests to find Hazel Grouse and Black-billed Capercaillie and a host of passerines highlighted by Siberian Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Bluethroat and Red-flanked Bluetail.
We also plan to spend time on the vast Manchurian-Siberian grasslands- one of the last and largest intact ecosystems on earth. Raptors will be common and include Upland Buzzard, Steppe Eagle and Saker Falcon, as well as Mongolian Gazelle and Saiga Antelope.
Join Simon for our first Venture to this wild and wonderful part of the world.
Cost of Mongolia Venture
Price of $6995 per person includes:
All ground transportation, accommodation, food and drinking water, local guides and entrance fees and permits throughout. Visa service (if needed)
$650 single supplement.
Not included:
Round trip airfare to Ulaanbaatar, alcoholic beverages, gratuities, laundry, and items of a personal nature.
Some of the birds we hope to see:
White-headed Duck, Falcated Duck, Common Merganser, White-naped, Demoiselle and Common Crane, Black-billed Capercaillie, Altai Snowcock, Pallas’s Gull, Oriental Plover, Far Eastern Curlew, Red-necked Stint, Pallas’s Sandgrouse, Bearded Vulture, Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker, Azure Tit, White-crowned Penduline-Tit, Mongolian Ground-jay, Red-throated Thrush, Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush, Güldenstädt's Redstart, Hodgson’s Bush Chat, Brown Accentor, Altai Accentor, Pallas’s Grasshopper-Warbler, Water Pipit, Brandt’s Mountain Finch, Plain Mountain Finch, Mongolian Desert Finch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Godlewski’s, Meadow and Pine Buntings.
Mammals
Mongolian Marmot, Pallas’s Pika, Daurian Pika, Mongolian Gerbil, Long-tailed Ground-Squirrel, Altai Argali, Mongolian Saiga, Black-tailed Gazelle, Mongolian Gazelle, Przewalski’s horse, Altai Wapiti, and Corsac Fox.
