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Mongolia Birding Tour; Top 5 Birds
With vast areas of undulating steppe grasslands, rocky mountains and gorges, upland wetlands with wide and meandering rivers, larch-covered hill slopes, reed-fringed lakes surrounded by endless plains, upland bogs punctuated by rocky tors, towering sand dunes and semi-desert dotted with tufty bushes as well as snow-capped mountains the landscapes while birding in Mongolia are a highlight in themselves but when you add an exciting and diverse avifauna as well as some memorable mammals to that equation you have the recipe for a very rich birding tour in a unique country. The number and quality of species seen on Calidris Birding Tours‘s first trip to Mongolia in June 2026 exceeded the…
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Winter Finches in South Korea
In winter, South Korea’s parks, rice fields and wooded hillslopes come alive with a varied and bustling cast of finches; small birds that color the cold season with flashes of yellow, pink, green and cinnamon. From small groups that rove, chattering through bare branches to the mixed flocks feeding on leftover grains in rice fields and winter berries in parks and gardens, these finches offer an intimate glimpse into the country’s colder months. In this post we’ll discuss the finches that we have encountered on our winter birding tours to South Korea over the years that we have been visiting.
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Three Asian Bird Families You Must See
For birders, one of the main attractions of travelling overseas to new places is to see exotic and unfamiliar birds and what could be newer and more unfamiliar than birds that are in families that one has never previously experienced? For those who have not birded in Asia before, and indeed those that have, there are some mouth-watering bird families to discover; here are three Asian bird families you must see and, when encountered, are likely to leave you wanting to travel further within the continent to see more due to factors such as size, amazing plumage and enigmatic behaviour.
