Where can you see the Desert Wheatear?
Some of the best places to see the Desert Wheatear in the wild include Altai Tavan Bogd National Park (Mongolia), Awash National Park (Ethiopia) and Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park (Mongolia) — among 18 wildlife hotspots across 8 countries, including India, the United Kingdom, China and Mongolia. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Altai Tavan Bogd National Park
Tsengel, Mongolia
+146 birds+3 mammals
Where the Altai Mountains rise in jagged defiance along Mongolia's western frontier, the terrain transforms into a realm of alpine tundra, rocky plateaus, and glacier-carved valleys…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKAltun Mountain National Nature Reserve
Jiuquan, China
+32 birds
Where the Altun Mountains rise across the high desert basin of northwestern China, one encounters a landscape shaped by extremes—cold, aridity, and relentless altitude. Spanning over…
VIEW NATURE RESERVEAwash National Park
Didiga, Ethiopia
+473 birds+23 mammals
Where the Ethiopian Rift Valley carves through volcanic plateaus, a ribbon of riverine forest winds through acacia scrubland and grassland, creating a mosaic of habitats that…
VIEW NATURAL PARKCalanques National Park
Bouches-du-Rhône, France
+233 birds+42 mammals
Where limestone cliffs plunge dramatically into crystalline Mediterranean waters, Calanques National Park preserves one of Europe's most striking coastal landscapes. These steep-sided inlets, carved by erosion…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCamargue Regional Nature Park
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France
+378 birds+48 mammals
Where the Rhône Delta sprawls into the Mediterranean, a landscape of stark and haunting beauty emerges—vast salt marshes punctuated by shallow lagoons, reed beds, and scrubland…
VIEW NATURAL PARKDelta de l’Ebre Natural Park
Eucaliptus, Spain
+341 birds+18 mammals
Where the Ebro River spreads into a vast labyrinth of shallow lagoons, reed beds, and brackish marshes before surrendering to the Mediterranean, one of southern Europe's…
VIEW NATURAL PARKGir National Park
Asundrali, India
+258 birds+13 mammals
Dry deciduous forests cloak the rolling hills of western Gujarat where the Gir landscape rises as a final sanctuary for one of the world's rarest felids:…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park
Tsagaan Subarga Hural, Mongolia
+183 birds+23 mammals
Where rust-coloured badlands rise from the southern Gobi steppe, the terrain transforms into a landscape of geological drama that few visitors expect to find in Mongolia's…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHemis National Park
Raigahar Dhar, India
+131 birds+13 mammals
Where granite gorges cleave through the Himalayas at dizzying altitudes, a vast wilderness of alpine desert unfolds across the rain shadow of Ladakh. Hemis sprawls across…
VIEW NATIONAL PARK