Birds to See in Mongolia in December
46 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
46 bird species on our list for Mongolia are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Common Raven, Magpie, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Carrion Crow and Great Tit. New this month: Dipper, Treecreeper, Long-eared Owl and Fieldfare and 6 more.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Common Raven
Corvus coraxLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Passer montanusLC
Recorded all year
Red-billed Chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxLC
Recorded all year
Cinereous Vulture
Aegypius monachusNT
Recorded all year
Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestrisLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Shelduck
Tadorna ferrugineaLC
Recorded all year
Golden Eagle
Aquila chrysaetosLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(6)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Little Owl
Athene noctuaLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Twite
Linaria flavirostrisLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Regularly Apr–Dec
Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(23)Present outside the breeding season
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year
Carrion Crow
Corvus coroneLC
Recorded all year
Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Nuthatch
Sitta europaeaLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Bohemian Waxwing
Bombycilla garrulusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Willow Tit
Poecile montanusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Dendrocopos majorLC
Recorded all year
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Long-tailed Tit
Aegithalos caudatusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Hawfinch
Coccothraustes coccothraustesLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Common Redpoll
Acanthis flammeaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Dryobates minorLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandariusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Treecreeper
Certhia familiarisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Marsh Tit
Poecile palustrisLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Dipper
Cinclus cinclusLC
Regularly Dec–Feb
Brambling
Fringilla montifringillaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhulaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Red Crossbill
Loxia curvirostraLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Northern Goshawk
Astur gentilisLC
Recorded all year
Passage migrants
(9)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Eurasian Siskin
Spinus spinusLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Goldcrest
Regulus regulusLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Redwing
Turdus iliacusNT
Regularly Oct–Dec
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Regularly Dec
Fieldfare
Turdus pilarisLC
Regularly Dec–Apr
Black Grouse
Lyrurus tetrixLC
Regularly May–Dec
Lapland Longspur
Calcarius lapponicusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Greenfinch
Chloris chlorisLC
Regularly Apr–Dec
Long-eared Owl
Asio otusLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made