English: Daurian Jackdaw
Russian: Даурская галка
German: Elsterdohle
French: Choucas de Daourie
Mongolian: Алагтуу хэрээ
Japanese: コクマルガラス (Kokumaru-garasu)

Body length: 33-34 cm
Wing span: 67-74 cm

Breeding visitor /partial migrant
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 4-6
Egg colour: Pale light blue with small blotches, spots and specks.
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Invertebrates, frogs, rodents, seeds, and fruits.

Habitat: Nests in tree holes in old deciduous and mixed forests at the edges of mountain taiga forests, forest steppe, and mountain steppe and river valleys. They are semi-colonial nesters. They build stick nests made of twigs, branches, and large stems of dry thick grasses in the holes of old deciduous and coniferous trees.