Its flight feathers are white and it often lives in very high mountain areas whose height is around 1800 to 3000 meters.

The special design of his face, which includes white eye band and throat, dark gray, and a rich gray line on the side of the neck, can be recognized from a close distance.

[3] Its plumage is patterned with grey, brown, white and black, but this snowcock looks pale gray from any distance.

Male and female plumages are similar, but juveniles are slightly smaller and duller in appearance.

There are three races differing in plumage saturation, becoming paler from west to east.

The Caspian snowcock has a desolate whistling song, vaguely like a Eurasian curlew, sooo-looo-leeee.

It differs from Caucasian snowcock in that it does not have the drop in pitch at the end of the song shown by that species.