
Mongolia July/August 2025
Four of us undertook a tour of Mongolia looking especially for Snow Leopard and Pallas’s Cat from the end of July into August 2025. We got both (well I missed the Snow Leopard) and an array of other good mammals on a really good tour with Soaring Expeditions.
Report attached.
Never Mind the Snowcocks – Mongolia 2025
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Farnborough John
Hi Jon, yes of course – you can tell I don’t do reports often…
Mammals in Mongolia:
Przewalski’s horse, Equus ferus przewalskii
Goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa
Mongolian gazelle, Procapra gutturosa
Saiga antelope, Saiga tatarica
Siberian ibex, Capra sibrica
Manchurian Wapiti, Cervus canadensis
Pallas’s cat, Otocolobus manul
Snow leopard, Panthera uncia
Corsac fox, Vulpes corsac
Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
Tolai hare, Lepus tolai
Daurian pika, Ochotona dauurica
Pallas’s pika, Ochotona pallasi
Tarbagan marmot, Marmota sibirica
Long-tailed ground squirrel, Spermophilus undulatus
Siberian chipmunk, Eutamias sibiricus
Balikun jerboa, Allactaga balikunica
Five-toed pygmy jerboa, Cardiocranius paradoxus
Northern three-toed jerboa, Dipus sagitta
Andrews’s three-toed = Mongolian jerboa, Stylodipus andrewsi
Dwarf striped hamster, Cricetulus barabensis
Desert hamster, Phodopus roborovskii
Gobi Altai mountain vole, Alticola barakshin
Mongolian silver vole, Alticola semicanus
Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus
Midday jird/gerbil, Meriones meridianus
Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatusI’ve tried to show the English names our guides used but with duplicates from reference material in case others need clarification. Hope it helps.
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Jon Hall
Thanks. Yes it is very helpful for me at least to have this list at the end. It least so I can tell the world how many species you saw. Thanks.
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Farnborough John
Thank you for the compliment about the title – it came out of a dining table discussion during the tour: it wasn’t my suggestion but I knew it was right!
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JanEbr
Birdforum regulars that are not me are now making primarily mammalwatching trips? What has the world come to!
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Farnborough John
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Steve Babbs
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Jon Hall
This might be my favourite report title for 2025! Congratulations on what sounds like a great trip. Can you also share the list of mammals?