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Where does the Pallas's Sandgrouse live?

Syrrhaptes paradoxus has 5,061 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1842 to 2026. Most records come from Mongolia.

Pallas's Sandgrouse
Pallas's Sandgrouse — Photo: Ján Svetlík · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPteroclidiformesPteroclididaeSyrrhaptes

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18422026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Mongolia 2,695
Kazakhstan 919
China 689
Denmark 200
Russia 166
Norway 73
Kyrgyzstan 51
Netherlands 39
United Kingdom 38
Sweden 37
Ukraine 36
Uzbekistan 30
South Korea 22
Belgium 19
Finland 16
Poland 8
France 6
Bulgaria 4
Czechia 2
Greece 2
Iran 2
Switzerland 1
Germany 1
India 1
Slovakia 1
Turkmenistan 1
Türkiye 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.