These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests. |
It has achieved dominant status on tens of millions of hectares of former cold desert shrubland and sagebrush steppe vegetation. |
After Datong, further north in Mongol country, the steppe stretches out monotonously to the horizon. |
Breeds in wetlands in the steppe and forest-steppe zones, and in mountainous areas along narrow, fast-flowing rivers. |
The steppe belongs to no one: everyone finds a place and leaves it when they're done. |
My driver had navigated through the arid steppe land without compass or map let alone one of those hateful satellite guidance systems. |