Categories
All species that can be reported via Swiss Bird Alert are grouped into the following four categories. Each category has its own sound that is played when a push notification arrives on your smartphone.Not Recorded
Sound: Siberian Rubythroat
Species: All species that have not yet been recorded in Switzerland.
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Very Rare
Sound: Terek Sandpiper
Species: All species that usually do not occur annually in Switzerland, have not yet been recorded often or are very difficult to see due to their behaviour (e.g. migrating birds of prey).
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Rare
Sound: Richard's Pipit
Species: Species that usually occur annually. Rarities, already seen by many observers in Switzerland.
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Scarce
Sound: European Bee-eater
Species: Species that are usually not subject to submission to the rarities commitee, which occur regularily in small numbers, locally and only in a short period of the year. Often only of regional interest, but a good indicator for the current state of the migration.
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Species List
not recorded
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | |
| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | |
| American Black Duck | Anas rubripes | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | |
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| American Wigeon | Anas americana | |
| Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | |
| Arctic Redpoll | Carduelis hornemanni | |
| Arctic Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | |
| Armenian Gull | Larus armenicus | |
| Asian Desert Warbler | Sylvia nana | |
| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | |
| Azure Tit | Cyanistes cyanus | |
| Baikal Teal | Anas formosa | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | |
| Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | |
| Barolo Shearwater | Puffinus baroli | |
| Barrow's Goldeneye | Bucephala islandica | |
| Black-faced Bunting | Emberiza spodocephala | |
| Black Guillemot | Cepphus grylle | |
| Black Lark | Melanocorypha yeltoniensis | |
| Black-throated Accentor | Prunella atrogularis | |
| Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | |
| Blyth's Pipit | Anthus godlewskii | |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Larus philadelphia | |
| Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | |
| Buff-bellied Pipit | Anthus rubescens | |
| Cackling Goose | Branta hutchinsii | |
| Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | |
| Caspian Plover | Charadrius asiaticus | |
| Chestnut Bunting | Emberiza rutila | |
| Cinereous Bunting | Emberiza cineracea | |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | |
| Crested Honey-Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
| Cretzschmar's Bunting | Emberiza caesia | |
| Daurian Jackdaw | Corvus dauuricus | |
| Demoiselle Crane | Grus virgo | |
| Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
| Eastern Bonelli's Warbler | Phylloscopus orientalis | |
| Eastern Crowned Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus coronatus | |
| Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| Eastern Orphean Warbler | Sylvia crassirostris | |
| Elegant Tern | Sterna elegans | |
| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | |
| Falcated Duck | Anas falcata | |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | |
| Glaucous-winged Gull | Larus glaucescens | |
| Great Black-headed Gull | Larus ichthyaetus | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | |
| Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | |
| Great Shearwater | Puffinus gravis | |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Green Warbler | Phylloscopus nitidus | |
| Grey-necked Bunting | Emberiza buchanani | |
| House Crow | Corvus splendens | |
| Imperial Eagle | Aquila heliaca | |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| King Eider | Somateria spectabilis | |
| Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | |
| Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | |
| Least sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
| Lesser Flamingo | Phoenicopterus minor | |
| Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
| Levant Sparrowhawk | Accipiter brevipes | |
| Little Auk | Alle alle | |
| Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | |
| Long-tailed Rosefinch | Uragus sibiricus | |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
| Marmora's Warbler | Sylvia sarda | |
| Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | |
| Moltoni's Warbler | Sylvia subalpina | |
| Moussier's Redstart | Phoenicurus moussieri | |
| Naumann's Thrush | Turdus naumanni | |
| Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | |
| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | |
| Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
| Pacific Swift | Apus pacificus | |
| Pallas's Bunting | Emberiza pallasi | |
| Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella certhiola | |
| Parrot Crossbill | Loxia pytyopsittacus | |
| Petchora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
| Pintail Snipe | Gallinago stenura | |
| Razorbill | Alca torda | |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | |
| Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | |
| Redhead | Aythya americana | |
| Red-headed Bunting | Emberiza bruniceps | |
| Red-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus ruficollis | |
| Red-throated Thrush | Turdus ruficollis | |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| Rock Pipit | Anthus petrosus | |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | |
| Ross's Goose | Anser rossii | |
| Ross's Gull | Rhodostethia rosea | |
| Royal Tern | Sterna maxima | |
| Rufous-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |
| Rüppell's Griffon Vulture | Gyps rueppellii | |
| Rüppell's Warbler | Sylvia ruppeli | |
| Sandhill Crane | Grus canadensis | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | |
| Siberian Accentor | Prunella montanella | |
| Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | |
| Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | |
| Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
| Snowy Owl | Bubo scandiacus | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Sora Crake | Porzana carolina | |
| Southern Grey Shrike | Lanius meridionalis | |
| Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | |
| Sykes's Warbler | Iduna rama | |
| Syrian Woodpecker | Dendrocopos syriacus | |
| Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | |
| Thick-billed Warbler | Iduna aedon | |
| Two-barred Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | |
| Two-barred Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus | |
| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | |
| Western Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna opaca | |
| Western Reef Egret | Egretta gularis | |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| White's Thrush | Zoothera dauma | |
| White-crowned Black Wheatear | Oenanthe leucopyga | |
| White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | |
| White-tailed Plover | Vanellus leucurus | |
| White-throated Needletail Swift | Hirundapus caudacutus | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | |
| Wilson's Storm Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | |
| Yellow-browed Bunting | Emberiza chrysophrys | |
very rare
| American Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus | |
| Audouin's Gull | Larus audouinii | |
| Band-rumped Storm Petrel | Oceanodroma castro | |
| Bimaculated Lark | Melanocorypha bimaculata | |
| Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | |
| Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | |
| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | |
| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | |
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | |
| Blue-winged Teal | Anas discors | |
| Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | |
| Booted Eagle | Aquila pennata | |
| Booted Warbler | Iduna caligata | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | |
| Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
| Common Murre | Uria aalge | |
| Common Redpoll | Carduelis flammea | |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Cream-colored Courser | Cursorius cursor | |
| Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | |
| Dalmatian Pelican | Pelecanus crispus | |
| Dartford Warbler | Sylvia undata | |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | |
| Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | |
| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | |
| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| European Shag | Phalacrocorax aristotelis | |
| European Storm Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | |
| Franklin's Gull | Larus pipixcan | |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
| Great Bustard | Otis tarda | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Aquila clanga | |
| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | |
| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas carolinensis | |
| Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | |
| Houbara Bustard | Chlamydotis undulata | |
| Hume's Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus humei | |
| Iberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus ibericus | |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | |
| Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | |
| Ivory Gull | Pagophila eburnea | |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | |
| Laughing Gull | Larus atricilla | |
| Leach's Storm Petrel | Oceanodroma leucorhoa | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Sterna bengalensis | |
| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | |
| Lesser Short-toed Lark | Calandrella rufescens | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | Aquila pomarina | |
| Lesser White-fronted Goose | Anser erythropus | |
| Little Bustard | Tetrax tetrax | |
| Long-billed Murrelet | Brachyramphus perdix | |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | |
| Long-tailed Shrike | Lanius schach | |
| Macqueen's Bustard | Chlamydotis macqueenii | |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
| Marbled Duck | Marmaronetta angustirostris | |
| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
| Northern Hawk-Owl | Surnia ulula | |
| Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Pacific Loon | Gavia pacifica | |
| Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | |
| Pallas's Sandgrouse | Syrrhaptes paradoxus | |
| Pallas’s Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus proregulus | |
| Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | |
| Pine Grosbeak | Pinicola enucleator | |
| Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | |
| Pink-footed Goose | Anser brachyrhynchus | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | |
| Pygmy Cormorant | Phalacrocorax pygmeus | |
| Radde's Warbler | Phylloscopus schwarzi | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | |
| Red-breasted Goose | Branta ruficollis | |
| River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | |
| Rock Sparrow | Petronia petronia | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| Rustic Bunting | Emberiza rustica | |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | |
| Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | |
| Sardinian Warbler | Sylvia melanocephala | |
| Semi-collared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | |
| Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | |
| Slender-billed Curlew | Numenius tenuirostris | |
| Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | |
| Sociable Lapwing | Vanellus gregarius | |
| Song Sparrow | Melospiza melodia | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Puffinus griseus | |
| Spectacled Warbler | Sylvia conspicillata | |
| Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | |
| Trumpeter Finch | Bucanetes githagineus | |
| Twite | Carduelis flavirostris | |
| Western Orphean Warbler | Sylvia hortensis | |
| Western Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | |
| White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | |
| White-throated Robin | Irania gutturalis | |
| White-winged Lark | Melanocorypha leucoptera | |
| Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | |
| Yellow-billed Loon | Gavia adamsii | |
rare
| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
| Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Baillon's Crake | Porzana pusilla | |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | |
| Barred Warbler | Sylvia nisoria | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| Brant Goose | Branta bernicla | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| Common Chiffchaff tristsis/abietinus | Phylloscopus collybita tristis/abietinus | |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
| Eurasian Stone-curlew | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | |
| Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | |
| Lesser Grey Shrike | Lanius minor | |
| Little Bunting | Emberiza pusilla | |
| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
| Red-spotted Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica svecica | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | |
| Rough-legged Buzzard | Buteo lagopus | |
| Slender-billed Gull | Larus genei | |
| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
| Subalpine Warbler | Sylvia cantillans | |
| White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | |
| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
scarce
| manual entry | Please do not report breeding birds or common species! | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | |
| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | |
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | |
| Common Crane | Grus grus | |
| Common Loon | Gavia immer | |
| Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | |
| Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Charadrius morinellus | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| European Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | |
| European Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | Please do not report breeding birds. |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Griffon Vulture | Gyps fulvus | |
| Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Little Crake | Porzana parva | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Sandwich Tern | Sterna sandvicensis | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
| Short-toed Snake Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
| Skua unidentified | Stercorarius sp. | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | |
| Vinous-throated Parrotbill | Paradoxornis webbianus | |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail feldegg | Motacilla flava feldegg | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail flavissima | Motacilla flava flavissima | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
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