BIRDS OF MONGOLIA

The Mongolian Ornithological Society (MOS) organizes Shorebirds’ training event annually at Tsengiin tsagaan nuur located on the border between Bayannuur soum and Dashinchilen soum, Bulgan province.

This year the event was organized during the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of August. On the first day we gave a talk to local people at the administration office of Bayannuur soum center with the purpose of disseminating knowledge about shorebirds and wildlife conservation.

Every year we deliver training on bird ringing, counting, capturing, identifying and photographing to the participants of our annual event. The participants are from local conservation societies and NGOs, universities, colleges and bird watchers.

During the event we counted all the birds observed around the lake. The result was 14,368 individuals involving 74 species of birds. The most common bird recorded this year was the Pacific Golden Plover with 5516 individuals recorded. Some rare species are found every year around the lake including Asian Dowitcher, White-naped Crane, Swan Goose, Pallas’ Bunting and Cinereous Vulture.