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Little bird from Mongolia, Gobi desert (1 Viewer)
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lou salomon
the birdonist
structure and downy plumage is that of a Charadrius indeed. i think on range it can only be alexandrinus or leschenaultii but on habitat and strong bill i think we can deduce it is a Greater Sand Plover, Ch. leschenaultii. could you tell us, please, where exactly or about where you saw this bird and if there was a salt lake around? or any fresh water? even a dried out creek? southern mogolia or northern gobi is an area that spans over 1000 km! edit: i think we have to take in account oriental plover, too, which on first sight on the range map didn't occure in the region but it does. again, where about was the photo taken?
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Larry Lade
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Does look like a plover chick, but I do not know which plover it might be.
Hi Lou
I was traveling by myself in Mongolia and it is difficult to say exactely where I was. I was traveling from the large dunes in Gobi Gurvan Saikhan (the dunes are a tutistic point and they are called Khongor sand dunes) to a lake that is popular for birders (Orog lake). I had passed a village call Bogd. The altitude was around 2000 meters, no water aorund for several hours but there were dried creeks coming down from the mountais.
The day before I saw alexandrinus in the water close to the dunes, and one day before leschenaultii in a drier area
I was traveling by myself in Mongolia and it is difficult to say exactely where I was. I was traveling from the large dunes in Gobi Gurvan Saikhan (the dunes are a tutistic point and they are called Khongor sand dunes) to a lake that is popular for birders (Orog lake). I had passed a village call Bogd. The altitude was around 2000 meters, no water aorund for several hours but there were dried creeks coming down from the mountais.
The day before I saw alexandrinus in the water close to the dunes, and one day before leschenaultii in a drier area
lou salomon
the birdonist
the maps of birdlife international show the place you mentioned for both leschenaultii and veredus as within their breeding range. on habitat i think leschenaultii is more likely. alexandrinus seems to breed a bit more to the south but range maps in those areas surely are not very exact. on bill i think it is not an alexandrinus chick. i haven't found pics of veredus downy young on the net and i guess the most probable still is leschenaultii. edit: ahh - mark's jumped in. he's more familiar with those areas. as for fresh water: tuin river looks to be not far away and orog lake surely also supports more suitable habitat for their postbreeding movements.
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