Mongolia:
Spring Birding & Snow Leopards
June 2-17, 2025
Your place on this Venture is reserved when your completed registration form and deposit of $300/person has been received. 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, cash, check, or money order (payable to ‘VENTURES BIRDING’) sent to PO Box 1095, Skyland, NC 28776. This Venture is limited to 8 participants.
Cost of the Mongolia Venture: $6,995 per person, based on double occupancy. Single supplement - $700 Price Includes; All ground transportation, meals, entrance fees, information packet & bird checklist, guide (one local & one Ventures) service throughout. Not included: international airfare to Ulaanbaatar (UBN), taxes, alcoholic beverages, gratuities, laundry, and other items of a personal nature.
An exciting 2 week tour going off the beaten path. Incredible scenery and wildlife will be a daily occurrence and we will be staying in beautiful locations near to our birding areas. As well as staying at tourist hotels in towns, we will be staying at Mongolian Ger (Yurt) Camps and also doing some camping. The latter will be made as comfortable as possible for us.
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, Siberian Ibex, Mongolian Saiga, Black-tailed Gazelle, Mongolian Gazelle, Przewalski’s horse, Altai Wapiti, Snow Leopard, Mongolian Wolf and Corsac Fox