List of Bird Species

Species that occur as wild birds in Switzerland

African Sacred Ibis

Alpine Accentor

Alpine Chough

Alpine Swift

Alpine or Willow Tit

Aquatic Warbler

Arctic Tern

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

Bewick's Swan

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-throated Loon

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

Canada Goose

Carrion Crow

Carrion/Hooded Crow

Caspian Gull

Caspian Tern

Cetti's Warbler

Cinereous Vulture

Cirl Bunting

Citril Finch

Citrine Wagtail

Coal Tit

Collared Flycatcher

Collared Pratincole

Common Blackbird

Common Buzzard

Common Chiffchaff

Common Crane

Common Cuckoo

Common Eider

Common Firecrest

Common Goldeneye

Common Grasshopper Warbler

Common Greenshank

Common Gull

Common Kestrel

Common Kingfisher

Common Linnet

Common Loon

Common Merganser

Common Moorhen

Common Murre

Common Nightingale

Common Pheasant

Common Pochard

Common Quail

Common Redpoll

Common Redshank

Common Redstart

Common Reed Bunting

Common Reed Warbler

Common Ringed Plover

Common Rock Thrush

Common Rosefinch

Common Sandpiper

Common Scoter

Common Shelduck

Common Snipe

Common Starling

Common Swift

Common Tern

Common Whitethroat

Common Wood Pigeon

Common Yellowthroat

Corn Bunting

Corn Crake

Cory's Shearwater

Cream-colored Courser

Crested Lark

Crested Tit

Curlew Sandpiper

Dalmatian Pelican

Dartford Warbler

Desert Wheatear

Dunlin

Dunnock

Dusky Warbler

Eastern Black-eared Wheatear

Eastern Subalpine Warbler

Egyptian Goose

Egyptian Vulture

Eleonora's Falcon

Eurasian Bittern

Eurasian Blackcap

Eurasian Blue Tit

Eurasian Bullfinch

Eurasian Chaffinch

Eurasian Collared Dove

Eurasian Coot

Eurasian Crag Martin

Eurasian Curlew

Eurasian Dotterel

Eurasian Eagle-Owl

Eurasian Golden Oriole

Eurasian Goshawk

Eurasian Hobby

Eurasian Hoopoe

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 Stone-curlew

Eurasian Teal

Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Eurasian Treecreeper

Eurasian Whimbrel

Eurasian Wigeon

Eurasian Woodcock

Eurasian Wren

Eurasian Wryneck

European Bee-eater

European Golden Plover

European Goldfinch

European Green Woodpecker

European Greenfinch

European Herring Gull

European Honey Buzzard

European Nightjar

European Pied Flycatcher

European Robin

European Roller

European Serin

European Shag

European Stonechat

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

Great Black-backed Gull

Great Bustard

Great Cormorant

Great Crested Grebe

Great Egret

Great Grey Shrike

Great Reed Warbler

Great Skua

Great Snipe

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Tit

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-headed Woodpecker

Greylag Goose

Griffon Vulture

Gull-billed Tern

Gyrfalcon

Hawfinch

Hazel Grouse

Hen Harrier

Hooded Crow

Horned Grebe

Horned Lark

Houbara Bustard

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 Scaup

Lesser Spotted Eagle

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lesser White-fronted Goose

Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Yellowlegs

Little Bittern

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-eared Owl

Long-legged Buzzard

Long-tailed Duck

Long-tailed Jaeger

Long-tailed Shrike

Long-tailed Tit

Macqueen's Bustard

Mallard

Mandarin Duck

Manx Shearwater

Marbled Duck

Marsh Sandpiper

Marsh Tit

Marsh Warbler

Meadow Pipit

Mediterranean Gull

Mediterranean Short-toed Lark

Melodious Warbler

Merlin

Middle Spotted Woodpecker

Mistle Thrush

Moltoni’s Warbler

Montagu's Harrier

Moustached Warbler

Mute Swan

Northern Gannet

Northern Hawk-Owl

Northern Lapwing

Northern Pintail

Northern Raven

Northern Shoveler

Northern Wheatear

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

Parasitic Jaeger

Pectoral Sandpiper

Peregrine Falcon

Pied Avocet

Pine Bunting

Pine Grosbeak

Pink-backed Pelican

Pink-footed Goose

Pomarine Jaeger

Purple Gallinule

Purple Heron

Purple Sandpiper

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

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 Scrub Robin

Rustic Bunting

Sabine's Gull

Saker Falcon

Sand Martin

Sanderling

Sandwich Tern

Sardinian Warbler

Savi's Warbler

Scopoli's Shearwater

Sedge Warbler

Semicollared Flycatcher

Short-eared Owl

Short-toed Snake Eagle

Short-toed Treecreeper

Siberian Chiffchaff

Siberian Thrush

Slender-billed Curlew

Slender-billed Gull

Smew

Snow Bunting

Snow Goose

Sociable Lapwing

Song Sparrow

Song Thrush

Sooty Shearwater

Spanish Sparrow

Spectacled Warbler

Spotless Starling

Spotted Crake

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Nutcracker

Spotted Redshank

Spotted Sandpiper

Squacco Heron

Stelzenläufer / Uferschwalbe

Steppe Eagle

Stock Dove

Subalpine Warbler

Taiga Bean Goose

Tawny Owl

Tawny Pipit

Temminck's Stint

Terek Sandpiper

Thrush Nightingale

Tree Pipit

Trumpeter Finch

Tufted Duck

Tundra Bean Goose

Twite

Velvet Scoter

Vinous-throated Parrotbill

Wallcreeper

Water Pipit

Water Rail

Western Barn Owl

Western Black-eared Wheatear

Western Bonelli's Warbler

Western Capercaillie

Western Cattle Egret

Western House Martin

Western Jackdaw

Western Marsh Harrier

Western Orphean Warbler

Western Sandpiper

Western Subalpine Warbler

Western Swamphen

Western Yellow Wagtail

Whinchat

Whiskered Tern

White Stork

White Wagtail

White-backed Woodpecker

White-headed Duck

White-rumped Sandpiper

White-tailed Eagle

White-throated Dipper

White-throated Robin

White-winged Lark

White-winged Snowfinch

White-winged Tern

Whooper Swan

Willow Tit

Willow Warbler

Wood Sandpiper

Wood Warbler

Woodchat Shrike

Woodlark

Yelkouan Shearwater

Yellow-billed Loon

Yellow-browed Warbler

Yellow-legged Gull

Yellowhammer

Zitting Cisticola