Birds of Mongolia
Mongolia hosts 408 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Cinereous VultureAegypius monachus
- Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
- Northern RavenCorvus corax
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferruginea
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Eurasian MagpiePica pica
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Upland BuzzardButeo hemilasius
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- Isabelline WheatearOenanthe isabellina
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Northern LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Common PochardAythya ferina
- Mongolian LarkMelanocorypha mongolica
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreola
- Asian Short-toed LarkAlaudala cheleensis
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Eurasian CootFulica atra
- Common ShelduckTadorna tadorna
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Steppe EagleAquila nipalensis
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- Dusky WarblerPhylloscopus fuscatus
- Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Swan GooseAnser cygnoides
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Daurian JackdawColoeus dauuricus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Taiga FlycatcherFicedula albicilla
- Great TitParus major
- Common RosefinchCarpodacus erythrinus
- Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia
- Pallas's SandgrouseSyrrhaptes paradoxus
- Isabelline ShrikeLanius isabellinus
- Common SwiftApus apus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Fork-tailed SwiftApus pacificus
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Little BuntingEmberiza pusilla
- Rock SparrowPetronia petronia
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Brown ShrikeLanius cristatus
- Pied WheatearOenanthe pleschanka
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoni
- Amur FalconFalco amurensis
- Desert WheatearOenanthe deserti
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- Eastern Marsh HarrierCircus spilonotus
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Red-throated ThrushTurdus ruficollis
- Pallas's Reed BuntingEmberiza pallasi
- Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Black-faced BuntingEmberiza spodocephala
- Common CraneGrus grus
- Pallas's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus proregulus
- Blyth's PipitAnthus godlewskii
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Pine BuntingEmberiza leucocephalos
- Bearded VultureGypaetus barbatus
- Richard's PipitAnthus richardi
- Hill PigeonColumba rupestris
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- Temminck's StintCalidris temminckii
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina
- Black StorkCiconia nigra
- Water PipitAnthus spinoletta
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- Azure TitCyanistes cyanus
- Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Pere David's SnowfinchPyrgilauda davidiana
- Hume's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus humei
- Brown AccentorPrunella fulvescens
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Long-tailed RosefinchCarpodacus sibiricus
- Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Lesser KestrelFalco naumanni
- Mongolian FinchBucanetes mongolicus
- Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Hen HarrierCircus cyaneus
- Eurasian Crag MartinPtyonoprogne rupestris
- Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
- Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Falcated DuckMareca falcata
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla
- Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Common Rock ThrushMonticola saxatilis
- Siberian StonechatSaxicola maurus
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- TwiteLinaria flavirostris
- White-cheeked StarlingSpodiopsar cineraceus
- White-winged SnowfinchMontifringilla nivalis
- Pallas's GullIchthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo
- Himalayan VultureGyps himalayensis
- Stejneger's ScoterMelanitta stejnegeri
- Two-barred WarblerPhylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
- Pale MartinRiparia diluta
- Black-throated ThrushTurdus atrogularis
- White-crowned Penduline TitRemiz coronatus
- Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- Crested LarkGalerida cristata
- Eastern Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Chukar PartridgeAlectoris chukar
- White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Red-necked StintCalidris ruficollis
- Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalis
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- Naumann's ThrushTurdus naumanni
- Long-toed StintCalidris subminuta
- Eurasian ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Azure-winged MagpieCyanopica cyanus
- Eyebrowed ThrushTurdus obscurus
- Godlewski's BuntingEmberiza godlewskii
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striata
- Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDryobates minor
- Güldenstädt's RedstartPhoenicurus erythrogastrus
- Paddyfield WarblerAcrocephalus agricola
- Yellow-breasted BuntingEmberiza aureola
- Greater Short-toed LarkCalandrella brachydactyla
- Mongolian Ground JayPodoces hendersoni
- Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- BluethroatLuscinia svecica
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- Long-legged BuzzardButeo rufinus
- Dark-sided FlycatcherMuscicapa sibirica
- Dusky ThrushTurdus eunomus
- Black-throated LoonGavia arctica
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitor
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Eastern BuzzardButeo japonicus
- Daurian PartridgePerdix dauurica
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- Japanese QuailCoturnix japonica
- Siberian AccentorPrunella montanella
- Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Asian DowitcherLimnodromus semipalmatus
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
- White's ThrushZoothera aurea
- Eversmann's RedstartPhoenicurus erythronotus
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Northern NutcrackerNucifraga caryocatactes
- Greenish WarblerPhylloscopus trochiloides
- Ortolan BuntingEmberiza hortulana
- Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Little TernSternula albifrons
- Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
- Grey-headed WoodpeckerPicus canus
- Ferruginous DuckAythya nyroca
- Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminata
- Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulus
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellus
- Saxaul SparrowPasser ammodendri
- European NightjarCaprimulgus europaeus
- Pin-tailed SnipeGallinago stenura
- Kozlov's AccentorPrunella koslowi
- Oriental Reed WarblerAcrocephalus orientalis
- Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius
- Common GullLarus canus
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Grey-necked BuntingEmberiza buchanani
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- European GreenfinchChloris chloris
- Pallas's Fish EagleHaliaeetus leucoryphus
- Relict GullIchthyaetus relictus
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- RedpollAcanthis flammea
- White-backed WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucotos
- SmewMergellus albellus
- WallcreeperTichodroma muraria
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Eurasian Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides tridactylus
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Hooded CraneGrus monacha
- Chinese Beautiful RosefinchCarpodacus davidianus
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Lanceolated WarblerLocustella lanceolata
- Little CurlewNumenius minutus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Swinhoe's SnipeGallinago megala
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Great Reed WarblerAcrocephalus arundinaceus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Crested Honey BuzzardPernis ptilorhynchus
- Blyth's Reed WarblerAcrocephalus dumetorum
- Chestnut BuntingEmberiza rutila
- Black-throated AccentorPrunella atrogularis
- Brown-cheeked RailRallus indicus
- Black-billed CapercaillieTetrao urogalloides
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Oriental GreenfinchChloris sinica
- White-headed DuckOxyura leucocephala
- Black GrouseLyrurus tetrix
- Chinese Bush WarblerLocustella tacsanowskia
- Pallas's RosefinchCarpodacus roseus
- Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
- Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellaris
- Chinese Pond HeronArdeola bacchus
- Oriental MagpiePica serica
- Yellow-throated BuntingEmberiza elegans
- Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- Chestnut-eared BuntingEmberiza fucata
- Eurasian BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
- Rosy StarlingPastor roseus
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rustica
- Red-throated PipitAnthus cervinus
- Hazel GrouseTetrastes bonasia
- Chinese Grey ShrikeLanius sphenocercus
- White-throated Bush ChatSaxicola insignis
- Yellow-browed BuntingEmberiza chrysophrys
- Sulphur-bellied WarblerPhylloscopus griseolus
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Pied HarrierCircus melanoleucos
- Altai AccentorPrunella himalayana
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Grey NightjarCaprimulgus jotaka
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Pale ThrushTurdus pallidus
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Short-toed Snake EagleCircaetus gallicus
- Asian Rosy FinchLeucosticte arctoa
- Tawny PipitAnthus campestris
- White-throated DipperCinclus cinclus
- Indian Spot-billed DuckAnas poecilorhyncha
- Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Grey-headed ChickadeePoecile cinctus
- Red-mantled RosefinchCarpodacus rhodochlamys
- Grey-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes
- Northern ShrikeLanius borealis
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Radde's WarblerPhylloscopus schwarzi
- Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
- Booted WarblerIduna caligata
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Saker FalconFalco cherrug
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Desert FinchRhodospiza obsoleta
- Siberian ThrushGeokichla sibirica
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Brown-headed GullChroicocephalus brunnicephalus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Ochre-rumped BuntingEmberiza yessoensis
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Savi's WarblerLocustella luscinioides
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- Siberian JayPerisoreus infaustus
- Warbling White-eyeZosterops japonicus
- Grey-headed LapwingVanellus cinereus
- Yellow-rumped FlycatcherFicedula zanthopygia
- Common LinnetLinaria cannabina
- Eastern Imperial EagleAquila heliaca
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus
- Brandt's Mountain FinchLeucosticte brandti
- Black-browed Reed WarblerAcrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Black-naped OrioleOriolus chinensis
- Daurian StarlingAgropsar sturninus
- White-throated NeedletailHirundapus caudacutus
- Baer's PochardAythya baeri
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Pine GrosbeakPinicola enucleator
- Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
- Himalayan Beautiful RosefinchCarpodacus pulcherrimus
- Tristram's BuntingEmberiza tristrami
- Grey-crowned GoldfinchCarduelis caniceps
- Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis
- Plain Mountain FinchLeucosticte nemoricola
- Great RosefinchCarpodacus rubicilla
- European Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Rough-legged BuzzardButeo lagopus
- Willow PtarmiganLagopus lagopus
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Common Grasshopper WarblerLocustella naevia
- Lesser CuckooCuculus poliocephalus
- Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
- Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalis
- Common QuailCoturnix coturnix
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Red-crowned CraneGrus japonensis
- RedwingTurdus iliacus
- Eurasian Scops OwlOtus scops
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Eurasian Golden OrioleOriolus oriolus
- Western JackdawColoeus monedula
- Reed ParrotbillParadoxornis heudei
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos
- Eurasian Pygmy OwlGlaucidium passerinum
- Rock PtarmiganLagopus muta
- Stock DoveColumba oenas
- Two-barred CrossbillLoxia leucoptera
- Rock BuntingEmberiza cia
- European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleuca
- YellowhammerEmberiza citrinella
- European Bee-eaterMerops apiaster
- Tiger ShrikeLanius tigrinus
- Solitary SnipeGallinago solitaria
- White-winged ScoterMelanitta deglandi
- Jankowski's BuntingEmberiza jankowskii
- Oriental DollarbirdEurystomus orientalis
- Chinese GrosbeakEophona migratoria
- Light-vented BulbulPycnonotus sinensis
- Red Collared DoveStreptopelia tranquebarica
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- Common NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchos
- Common BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Water RailRallus aquaticus
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- Japanese CormorantPhalacrocorax capillatus
- Eastern Red-rumped SwallowCecropis daurica
- Red-tailed ShrikeLanius phoenicuroides
- Oriental Scops OwlOtus sunia
- Mugimaki FlycatcherFicedula mugimaki
- Caspian GullLarus cachinnans
- Lesser Grey ShrikeLanius minor
- Oriental PratincoleGlareola maldivarum
- Black DrongoDicrurus macrocercus
- Tundra Bean GooseAnser serrirostris
- Alpine ChoughPyrrhocorax graculus
- Baikal Bush WarblerLocustella davidi
- European RobinErithacus rubecula
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Eurasian Eagle-OwlBubo bubo
- Pallid HarrierCircus macrourus
- Great BustardOtis tarda
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Slender-billed GullChroicocephalus genei
- Grey-backed ThrushTurdus hortulorum
- Vega GullLarus vegae
- Oriental StorkCiconia boyciana
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Lesser White-fronted GooseAnser erythropus
- Himalayan CuckooCuculus saturatus
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Red-breasted GooseBranta ruficollis
- White-throated Rock ThrushMonticola gularis
- Gray's Grasshopper WarblerHelopsaltes fasciolatus
- Jungle NightjarCaprimulgus indicus
- Red-headed BuntingEmberiza bruniceps
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Grey-streaked FlycatcherMuscicapa griseisticta
- Rufous-tailed RobinLarvivora sibilans
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
- European RollerCoracias garrulus
- Indian CuckooCuculus micropterus
- Black-necked CraneGrus nigricollis
- Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- Boreal OwlAegolius funereus
- Black-capped KingfisherHalcyon pileata
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- White-breasted WaterhenAmaurornis phoenicurus
- Griffon VultureGyps fulvus
- Blue-and-white FlycatcherCyanoptila cyanomelana
- Pechora PipitAnthus gustavi
- Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalis
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turtur
- Red PhalaropePhalaropus fulicarius
- Ashy MinivetPericrocotus divaricatus
- Eastern Crowned WarblerPhylloscopus coronatus
- Rosy PipitAnthus roseatus
- Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
- Black Wood PigeonColumba janthina
- Altai SnowcockTetraogallus altaicus
- Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseus
- Great KnotCalidris tenuirostris
- Dalmatian PelicanPelecanus crispus
- Forest WagtailDendronanthus indicus
- Rufous-bellied WoodpeckerDendrocopos hyperythrus
- Fairy PittaPitta nympha
- Velvet ScoterMelanitta fusca
- Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargus
- Spotted CrakePorzana porzana
- Grey-faced BuzzardButastur indicus
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Red-billed StarlingSpodiopsar sericeus
- Brown BoobookNinox scutulata
- Black Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone atrocaudata
- Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
- Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Red-breasted FlycatcherFicedula parva
- Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollis
- Tickell's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus affinis
- Japanese GrosbeakEophona personata
- Chestnut ThrushTurdus rubrocanus
- Japanese WaxwingBombycilla japonica