Species: Takhi or Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) Weight, height: approximately 300 kg or 660 lbs.; 13 hands (52 inches, 132 cm) Conservation Status: Endangered (IUCN Red List) Habitat Preference: Steppe, semi-desert; now also mountain steppe (Hustai) Best places to see takhi: In the wild: Hustai National Park, Mongolia. Captive animals: […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve done some finished graphite drawings and that’s what I’ve been doing this week. I’ve always loved to draw, so it was fun to just sit with a pencil (a General’s Draughting Pencil) and paper (Strathmore 300 vellum bristol) and work from some of […]
Species: Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) Weight, length: Cinereous vultures are the largest eurasian bird of prey and one of the largest flying birds. They are 98–120 cm (39–47 in) long with a 2.5–3.1 m (8.2–10 ft) wingspan and weigh 7–14 kg (15–31 lb) Conservation Status: Near Threatened (IUCN […]
I’m starting the New Year with a new series on Mongolian wildlife. These will be short profiles with essential information and interesting links. First up is the animal which brought me to Mongolia in the first place, the argali, now one of my favorite subjects. Species: Argali (Ovis […]
I’m going to start a short series for the holidays of “albums” with images I’ve shot of various types of animals and species that I’ve seen on my travels to Mongolia. First up are the birds I saw on this latest trip in August 2011. If you see […]
And now we come to the last leg of a wonderful two-week tour and a look at one last ecosytem, the mountain forest, which is the southermost extension of the boreal forest that circles the northern part of the Earth. The Jalman Meadows ger camp, run on a […]
We arrived at the Steppe Nomads ger camp at Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve with a broken rear spring on the Land Cruiser, not sure what this meant for the remainder of the trip. While Pokey and I settled in, Khatnaa got on his mobile phone and called the Nomadic […]
