List of Bird Species

Species that occur as wild birds in Switzerland

African Houbara

Alpine Accentor

Alpine Swift

Alpine or Willow Tit

Aquatic Warbler

Arctic Jaeger

Arctic Loon

Arctic Tern

Asian Houbara

Audouin's Gull

Baillon's Crake

Band-rumped Storm-petrel

Bar-tailed Godwit

Barn Swallow

Barnacle Goose

Barred Warbler

Bean Goose

Bearded Reedling

Bearded Vulture

Bimaculated Lark

Black Grouse

Black Kite

Black Redstart

Black Stork

Black Tern

Black Woodpecker

Black-crowned Night-heron

Black-eared Wheatear

Black-headed Bunting

Black-headed Gull

Black-legged Kittiwake

Black-necked Grebe

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-winged Kite

Black-winged Pratincole

Black-winged Stilt

Blue Rock-thrush

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Blue-winged Teal

Bluethroat

Blyth's Reed-warbler

Bohemian Waxwing

Bonelli's Eagle

Booted Eagle

Booted Warbler

Boreal Owl

Brambling

Brant Goose

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Brown Shrike

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Calandra Lark

Carrion/Hooded Crow

Caspian Gull

Caspian Tern

Cattle Egret

Cetti's Warbler

Cinereous Vulture

Cirl Bunting

Citril Finch

Citrine Wagtail

Coal Tit

Collared Flycatcher

Collared Pratincole

Collared Sand Martin

Common Barn-owl

Common Chaffinch

Common Chiffchaff

Common Coot

Common Crane

Common Cuckoo

Common Eider

Common Firecrest

Common Goldeneye

Common Grasshopper-warbler

Common Greenshank

Common Gull-billed Tern

Common Hoopoe

Common Kestrel

Common Kingfisher

Common Linnet

Common Little Bittern

Common Loon

Common Moorhen

Common Murre

Common Nightingale

Common Pheasant

Common Pochard

Common Quail

Common Raven

Common Redpoll

Common Redshank

Common Redstart

Common Reed-warbler

Common Ringed Plover

Common Rosefinch

Common Sandpiper

Common Scoter

Common Shelduck

Common Snipe

Common Starling

Common Stonechat

Common Swift

Common Teal

Common Tern

Common Whitethroat

Common Woodpigeon

Corn Bunting

Corncrake

Cory's Shearwater

Cream-coloured Courser

Crested Lark

Crested Tit

Curlew Sandpiper

Dalmatian Pelican

Dartford Warbler

Desert Wheatear

Dunlin

Dunnock

Dusky Warbler

Egyptian Goose

Egyptian Vulture

Eleonora's Falcon

Eurasian Bittern

Eurasian Blackbird

Eurasian Blackcap

Eurasian Blue Tit

Eurasian Bullfinch

Eurasian Buzzard

Eurasian Collared-dove

Eurasian Crag Martin

Eurasian Curlew

Eurasian Dotterel

Eurasian Eagle-owl

Eurasian Golden Oriole

Eurasian Golden Plover

Eurasian Green Woodpecker

Eurasian Hobby

Eurasian Jackdaw

Eurasian Jay

Eurasian Magpie

Eurasian Nuthatch

Eurasian Oystercatcher

Eurasian Penduline-tit

Eurasian Pygmy-owl

Eurasian Scops-owl

Eurasian Siskin

Eurasian Skylark

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Eurasian Spoonbill

Eurasian Thick-knee

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Eurasian Treecreeper

Eurasian Wigeon

Eurasian Woodcock

Eurasian Wryneck

European Bee-eater

European Goldfinch

European Greenfinch

European Herring Gull

European Honey-buzzard

European Nightjar

European Pied Flycatcher

European Robin

European Roller

European Serin

European Shag

European Storm-petrel

European Turtle-dove

Feral Pigeon

Ferruginous Duck

Fieldfare

Franklin's Gull

Gadwall

Garden Warbler

Garganey

Glaucous Gull

Glossy Ibis

Goldcrest

Golden Eagle

Goosander

Great Black-backed Gull

Great Bustard

Great Cormorant

Great Crested Grebe

Great Grey Shrike

Great Reed-warbler

Great Skua

Great Snipe

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Tit

Great White Egret

Great White Pelican

Greater Flamingo

Greater Scaup

Greater Short-toed Lark

Greater Spotted Eagle

Greater White-fronted Goose

Green Sandpiper

Green-winged Teal

Greenish Warbler

Grey Heron

Grey Partridge

Grey Plover

Grey Wagtail

Grey-faced Woodpecker

Greylag Goose

Griffon Vulture

Gyrfalcon

Hawfinch

Hazel Grouse

Hen Harrier

Horned Grebe

Horned Lark

House Sparrow

Hume's Leaf-warbler

Iberian Chiffchaff

Iceland Gull

Icterine Warbler

Isabelline Shrike

Isabelline Wheatear

Italian Sparrow

Ivory Gull

Jack Snipe

Kentish Plover

Killdeer

Lapland Longspur

Laughing Gull

Leach's Storm-petrel

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Lesser Crested Tern

Lesser Grey Shrike

Lesser Kestrel

Lesser Redpoll

Lesser Short-toed Lark

Lesser Spotted Eagle

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lesser White-fronted Goose

Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Yellowlegs

Little Bunting

Little Bustard

Little Crake

Little Egret

Little Grebe

Little Gull

Little Owl

Little Ringed Plover

Little Stint

Little Tern

Long-billed Murrelet

Long-legged Buzzard

Long-tailed Duck

Long-tailed Jaeger

Long-tailed Shrike

Long-tailed Tit

Mallard

Mandarin Duck

Manx Shearwater

Marsh Sandpiper

Marsh Tit

Marsh Warbler

Meadow Pipit

Mediterranean Gull

Melodious Warbler

Merlin

Mew Gull

Middle Spotted Woodpecker

Mistle Thrush

Montagu's Harrier

Moustached Warbler

Mute Swan

Northern Gannet

Northern Goshawk

Northern Hawk-owl

Northern House Martin

Northern Lapwing

Northern Long-eared Owl

Northern Nutcracker

Northern Pintail

Northern Shoveler

Northern Wheatear

Northern Wren

Olive-backed Pipit

Oriental Turtle-dove

Ortolan Bunting

Osprey

Pacific Golden Plover

Pacific Loon

Paddyfield Warbler

Pallas's Leaf-warbler

Pallas's Sandgrouse

Pallid Harrier

Pallid Swift

Pectoral Sandpiper

Peregrine Falcon

Pied Avocet

Pine Bunting

Pine Grosbeak

Pink-footed Goose

Pomarine Jaeger

Purple Heron

Purple Sandpiper

Purple Swamphen

Pygmy Cormorant

Radde's Warbler

Red Crossbill

Red Kite

Red Knot

Red Phalarope

Red-backed Shrike

Red-billed Chough

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Red-breasted Goose

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-crested Pochard

Red-footed Falcon

Red-legged Partridge

Red-necked Grebe

Red-necked Phalarope

Red-rumped Swallow

Red-throated Loon

Red-throated Pipit

Redpoll

Redwing

Reed Bunting

Richard's Pipit

Ring Ouzel

Ring-necked Duck

River Warbler

Rock Bunting

Rock Partridge

Rock Ptarmigan

Rock Sparrow

Rook

Roseate Tern

Rosy Starling

Rough-legged Buzzard

Ruddy Duck

Ruddy Shelduck

Ruddy Turnstone

Ruff

Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush

Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin

Rustic Bunting

Sabine's Gull

Saker Falcon

Sanderling

Sandwich Tern

Sardinian Warbler

Savi's Warbler

Scopoli's Shearwater

Sedge Warbler

Semi-collared Flycatcher

Short-eared Owl

Short-toed Snake-eagle

Short-toed Treecreeper

Siberian Chiffchaff

Siberian Thrush

Slender-billed Curlew

Slender-billed Gull

Smew

Snow Bunting

Sociable Lapwing

Song Sparrow

Song Thrush

Sooty Shearwater

Spanish Sparrow

Spectacled Warbler

Spotless Starling

Spotted Crake

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Redshank

Spotted Sandpiper

Squacco Heron

Stelzenläufer / Uferschwalbe

Steppe Eagle

Stock Dove

Subalpine Warbler

Tawny Owl

Tawny Pipit

Temminck's Stint

Terek Sandpiper

Three-toed Woodpecker

Thrush Nightingale

Tree Pipit

Trumpeter Finch

Tufted Duck

Tundra Swan

Twite

Velvet Scoter

Vinous-throated Parrotbill

Wallcreeper

Water Pipit

Western Bonelli's Warbler

Western Capercaillie

Western Marsh-harrier

Western Orphean Warbler

Western Sandpiper

Western Water Rail

Western Yellow Wagtail

Whimbrel

Whinchat

Whiskered Tern

White Stork

White Wagtail

White-backed Woodpecker

White-headed Duck

White-rumped Sandpiper

White-tailed Sea-eagle

White-throated Dipper

White-throated Robin

White-winged Lark

White-winged Snowfinch

White-winged Tern

Whooper Swan

Willow Warbler

Wood Sandpiper

Wood Warbler

Woodchat Shrike

Woodlark

Yelkouan Shearwater

Yellow-billed Chough

Yellow-billed Loon

Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-legged Gull

Yellowhammer

Zitting Cisticola