Where can you see the Upland Buzzard?
Some of the best places to see the Upland Buzzard in the wild include Hustai National Park (Mongolia), Gorkhi-Terelj National Park (Mongolia) and Baikal National Park (Russia) — among 23 wildlife hotspots across China, Mongolia, India, Nepal and Russia. 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 PARKBaikal National Park
Ольхонский район, Russia
+184 birds+11 mammals
Where the world's deepest freshwater lake meets ancient Siberian taiga, Baikal National Park sprawls across 66,203 square kilometers of one of Earth's most singular ecosystems. The…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBaima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve
Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China
+204 birds+3 mammals
High-altitude ridges and steep-sided valleys define this reserve in northwestern Yunnan, where elevations surge from around 3,000 metres to peaks above 4,100 metres. The terrain supports…
VIEW NATURE RESERVECaohai National Nature Reserve
Bijie, China
+93 birds
At roughly 1,900 metres elevation on Guizhou's high plateau, Caohai sprawls across a temperate landscape shaped by pronounced seasonal extremes. Winters here are dry and cool,…
VIEW NATURE RESERVEGiant Panda National Park
Mianyang, China
+447 birds+47 mammals
Where the eastern slopes of China's Sichuan plateau descend into cloud-wrapped valleys, one of Asia's most biodiverse landscapes unfolds across more than 350,000 square kilometres. This…
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 PARKGorkhi-Terelj National Park
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
+137 birds+5 mammals
Where granite monoliths rise abruptly from rolling steppe grasslands, Gorkhi-Terelj National Park unfolds across the landscape north of Ulaanbaatar, a sanctuary where forest and alpine meadow…
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 PARKHuanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, China
+194 birds+7 mammals
Across the high plateau of northwestern Sichuan, a geological wonder unfolds where limestone terraces and mineral-rich springs have sculpted one of China's most distinctive natural monuments.…
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