Mongolia Ramsar wetland
Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake
92 bird species recorded; the most in June.
Bernard Gagnon · CC0
This month here
0 species in January.0 species in February.0 species in March.0 species in April.53 species in May.83 species in June.23 species in July.44 species in August.48 species in September.0 species in October.0 species in November.0 species in December.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
92 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 92Speciesrecorded more than once
- 43Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 2ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 982Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 2,057 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 9Raptors
- 6Waders
- 6Gulls & seabirds
- 17Ducks & geese
- 6Herons, ibises & grebes
- 2Storks & cranes
- 38Songbirds
- 8Other birds
From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.
The checklist
All 92 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors9 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Steppe eagleAquila nipalensis
- Eurasian Black VultureAegypius monachusNT
- White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
- Bearded VultureGypaetus barbatusNT
- Upland BuzzardButeo hemilasius
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Pallas’s fish eagleHaliaeetus leucoryphus
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
Waders6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- RedshankTringa totanus
- Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusNT
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
Gulls & seabirds6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Black-throated DiverGavia arctica
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
Ducks & geese17 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
- Stejneger's ScoterMelanitta stejnegeri
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferruginea
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- GadwallMareca strepera
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Eurasian TealAnas crecca
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Common PochardAythya ferinaVU
- Falcated DuckMareca falcata
- Swan GooseAnser cygnoides
Herons, ibises & grebes6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritusVU
Storks & cranes2 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Demoiselle CraneAnthropoides virgo
- Black storkCiconia nigra
Songbirds38 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Northern RavenCorvus corax
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Daurian JackdawColoeus dauuricus
- Eurasian MagpiePica pica
- Ortolan buntingEmberiza hortulana
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
- Blyth’s PipitAnthus godlewskii
- Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreola
- Pine BuntingEmberiza leucocephalos
- Isabelline wheatearOenanthe isabellina
- Common Rock ThrushMonticola saxatilis
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoni
- Pallas's Reed HuntingEmberiza pallasi
- Common RosefinchCarpodacus erythrinus
- Pied WheatearOenanthe pleschanka
- Siberian stonechatSaxicola maurus
- Shore LarkEremophila alpestris
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Brown ShrikeLanius cristatus
- Brown AccentorPrunella fulvescens
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
- Eversmann's RedstartPhoenicurus erythronotus
- Hume’s leaf-warblerPhylloscopus humei
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Richard's PipitAnthus richardi
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Water PipitAnthus spinoletta
- Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
- Lesser whitethroatSylvia curruca
- Pallas's RosefinchCarpodacus roseus
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Northern ShrikeLanius borealis
Other birds8 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops
- Pacific SwiftApus pacificus
- Hill PigeonColumba rupestris
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- European SwiftApus apus
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- WryneckJynx torquilla
Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.
When to go
The most species in June.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan-15°/-27°3 mm
- Feb-11°/-25°4 mm
- Mar-3°/-17°6 mm
- Apr5°/-7°13 mm
- May12°/-2°25 mm
- Jun18°/4°54 mm
- Jul21°/7°73 mm
- Aug18°/4°67 mm
- Sep12°/-2°23 mm
- Oct3°/-8°12 mm
- Nov-6°/-17°6 mm
- Dec-13°/-24°4 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake.
Lake in Mongolia
Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Mongolia, 2,057 m above the sea.
92 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 982 open records.
The most recorded are the Bar-headed Goose, the Stejneger's Scoter and the Tufted Duck.
43 species come for the summer, 0 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
2 are threatened worldwide, including Common Pochard and Horned Grebe.
The most species are recorded in June.
Get there and watch
- Майхантай буудаллах газарcampsite · 6.1 km · 11 within 10 km
- Эх ундарга жуулчны баазplace to stay · 2.8 km · 29 within 10 km
- Horgonearest town · 11 km in a straight line
- Mörön Airport (MXV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 168 km in a straight line
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The place and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 2viewpoints within 5 kmШувуу ажиглах цэг
- 11campsites within 10 kmМайхантай буудаллах газар, Тэрхийн цагаан нуур Батуука, Ger camp and 8 more
- 29places to stay within 10 kmЭх ундарга жуулчны бааз, Гэр түрээс, Майхан толгой жуулчны бааз and 26 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas3 mountains within 25 kmKhorgo2,400 m · 10 kmDzagastïn Uul · 14 kmTaryatu-Chulutu · 17 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 kmTerkhiin Tsagaan Lake61 km² · 2.2 km↗Khadat Lake11 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 kmTerkhiin Tsagaan LakeBortle 1 · this placeKhorgoBortle 1 · 10 km
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The place, as people saw it.
Other places nearby.
Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake
Mongolia
- 52Birdyas Score
- 92Species
- 43Migrants
- 2Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2667673) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 982 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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