1 October 2025

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.

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Never Mind the Snowcocks – Mongolia 2025

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Farnborough John
Birder and increasingly mammal watcher for over 40 years, world mammal list just cracked 300, UK mammal list 78.
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  • 1 October 2025
    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?

    • 2 October 2025
      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 unguiculatus

      I’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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      • 3 October 2025
        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.

    • 2 October 2025
      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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  • 2 October 2025
    JanEbr

    Birdforum regulars that are not me are now making primarily mammalwatching trips? What has the world come to!

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