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 RubythroatSpecies: All species that have not yet been recorded in Switzerland.
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Very Rare
Sound: Terek SandpiperSpecies: 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 PipitSpecies: Species that usually occur annually. Rarities, already seen by many observers in Switzerland.
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Scarce
Sound: European Bee-eaterSpecies: 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
Changes with reference data version 11:- Systematics according to Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v12.2)
- This leads to splits like Black-eared Wheatear (into Western/Eastern), Subalpine Warbler (into Western/Eastern), Bean Goose (into Taiga/Tundra).
- The names of sub species have been aligned with the List of CH Club 300 (e.g. Siberian Chiffchaff, British Yellow Wagtail).
- The rarities of some species have been adjusted (e.g. Zitting Cisticola, Ruddy Duck).
- European Bee-eater, Griffon Vulture, Common Crane, and Western Cattle Egret have been removed as they occur more regularily now.
- Grey Plover and Smew have been added.
- Systematics according to Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v13.2)
- This leads to the split of Lesser Sand Plover (into Siberian/Tibetian).
- Ashy-throated Parrotbill has been added.
scarce
manual entry | Please do not report breeding birds or common species! | ||
Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | ||
Black-headed Wagtail | Motacilla flava feldegg | ||
Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | ||
British Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava flavissima | ||
Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | ||
Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | ||
Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | Please do not report breeding birds. | |
Common Loon | Gavia immer | ||
Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | ||
Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | ||
Eastern Subalpine Warbler | Curruca cantillans | ||
Eurasian Dotterel | Charadrius morinellus | Please do not report breeding birds. | |
Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | ||
Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | ||
Eurasian Stone-curlew | Burhinus oedicnemus | ||
European Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | ||
European Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | Please do not report breeding birds. | |
Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | ||
Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | ||
Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | ||
Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | ||
Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | ||
Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | ||
Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | ||
Little Crake | Zapornia 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 Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | ||
Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | ||
Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Please do not report breeding birds. | |
Short-toed Snake Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | ||
Siberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita tristis | ||
Skua/Jaeger (unidentified) | Stercorarius sp. | ||
Smew | Mergellus albellus | ||
Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | ||
Tundra Bean Goose | Anser serrirostris | ||
Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | ||
Western Subalpine Warbler | Curruca iberiae | ||
Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | ||
White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | ||
Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Please do not report breeding birds. | |
Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | ||
Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | ||
rare
African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | ||
Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | ||
Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | ||
Ashy-throated Parrotbill | Suthora alphonsianus | ||
Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | ||
Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | ||
Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | ||
Barred Warbler | Curruca nisoria | Please do not report breeding birds. | |
Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | ||
Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | ||
Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | ||
Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | ||
Brant Goose | Branta bernicla | ||
Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | ||
Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | ||
Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | ||
Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | ||
Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | ||
European Roller | Coracias garrulus | ||
Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | ||
Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | ||
Great Snipe | Gallinago media | ||
Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | ||
Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | ||
Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | ||
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 | ||
Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | ||
Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | ||
Pygmy Cormorant | Microcarbo pygmaeus | ||
Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | ||
Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | ||
Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | ||
Red-spotted Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica [svecica group] | 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 | ||
Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | ||
Sardinian Warbler | Curruca melanocephala | ||
Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | ||
Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | ||
Vinous-throated Parrotbill | Suthora webbiana | ||
White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | ||
very rare
Bimaculated Lark | Melanocorypha bimaculata | ||
Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | ||
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | ||
Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | ||
Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | ||
Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | ||
Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | ||
Booted Warbler | Iduna caligata | ||
Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | ||
Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | ||
Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | ||
Common Murre | Uria aalge | ||
Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | ||
Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | ||
Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | ||
Cream-colored Courser | Cursorius cursor | ||
Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | ||
Dalmatian Pelican | Pelecanus crispus | ||
Dartford Warbler | Curruca undata | ||
Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | ||
Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | ||
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | ||
Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | ||
Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | ||
European Shag | Gulosus aristotelis | ||
European Storm Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | ||
Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | ||
Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | ||
Great Bustard | Otis tarda | ||
Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | ||
Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | ||
Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | ||
Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | ||
Green-winged Teal | Anas carolinensis | ||
Grey-headed Swamphen | Porphyrio poliocephalus | ||
Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | ||
Houbara Bustard | Chlamydotis undulata | ||
Hume's Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus humei | ||
Iberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus ibericus | ||
Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | ||
Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | ||
Ivory Gull | Pagophila eburnea | ||
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | ||
Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | ||
Leach's Storm Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | ||
Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | ||
Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | ||
Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | ||
Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | ||
Lesser White-fronted Goose | Anser erythropus | ||
Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | ||
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 | ||
Moltoni's Warbler | Curruca subalpina | ||
Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | ||
Northern Hawk-Owl | Surnia ulula | ||
Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | ||
Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | ||
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 Grosbeak | Pinicola enucleator | ||
Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | ||
Pink-footed Goose | Anser brachyrhynchus | ||
Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | ||
Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | ||
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 | ||
Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | ||
Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | ||
Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | ||
Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | ||
Slender-billed Curlew | Numenius tenuirostris | ||
Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | ||
Sociable Lapwing | Vanellus gregarius | ||
Song Sparrow | Melospiza melodia | ||
Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | ||
Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | ||
Spectacled Warbler | Curruca conspicillata | ||
Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | ||
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | ||
Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | ||
Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | ||
Taiga Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | ||
Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | ||
Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | ||
Trumpeter Finch | Bucanetes githagineus | ||
Twite | Linaria flavirostris | ||
Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | ||
Western Orphean Warbler | Curruca hortensis | ||
Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | ||
Western Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | ||
White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | ||
White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | ||
White-throated Robin | Irania gutturalis | ||
White-winged Lark | Alauda leucoptera | ||
Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | ||
Yellow-billed Loon | Gavia adamsii | ||
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 | Mareca americana | ||
Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | ||
Arctic Redpoll | Acanthis hornemanni | ||
Arctic Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | ||
Armenian Gull | Larus armenicus | ||
Asian Desert Warbler | Curruca nana | ||
Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | ||
Azure Tit | Cyanistes cyanus | ||
Baikal Teal | Sibirionetta formosa | ||
Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | ||
Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | ||
Band-rumped Storm Petrel | Hydrobates castro | ||
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 | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | ||
Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | ||
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 | Coloeus dauuricus | ||
Demoiselle Crane | Grus virgo | ||
Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | ||
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler | Phylloscopus orientalis | ||
Eastern Crowned Warbler | Phylloscopus coronatus | ||
Eastern Imperial Eagle | Aquila heliaca | ||
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | ||
Eastern Orphean Warbler | Curruca crassirostris | ||
Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | ||
Elegant Tern | Thalasseus elegans | ||
Eurasian Rock Pipit | Anthus petrosus | ||
Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | ||
Falcated Duck | Mareca falcata | ||
Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | ||
Glaucous-winged Gull | Larus glaucescens | ||
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | ||
Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | ||
Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | ||
Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | ||
Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | ||
Green Heron | Butorides virescens | ||
Green Warbler | Phylloscopus nitidus | ||
Grey-necked Bunting | Emberiza buchanani | ||
House Crow | Corvus splendens | ||
Hudsonian Whimbrel | Numenius hudsonicus | ||
Iberian Grey Shrike | Lanius meridionalis | ||
Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | ||
King Eider | Somateria spectabilis | ||
Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | ||
Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | ||
Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | ||
Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor | ||
Levant Sparrowhawk | Accipiter brevipes | ||
Little Auk | Alle alle | ||
Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | ||
Little Swift | Apus affinis | ||
Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | ||
Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | ||
Marmora's Warbler | Curruca sarda | ||
Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | ||
Mediterranean Flycatcher | Muscicapa tyrrhenica | ||
Mediterranean Short-toed Lark | Alaudala rufescens | ||
Moussier's Redstart | Phoenicurus moussieri | ||
Naumann's Thrush | Turdus naumanni | ||
Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | ||
Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | ||
Pacific Swift | Apus pacificus | ||
Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler | Helopsaltes certhiola | ||
Pallas's Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | ||
Pallas's Reed Bunting | Emberiza pallasi | ||
Parrot Crossbill | Loxia pytyopsittacus | ||
Petchora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | ||
Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | ||
Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | ||
Pin-tailed 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-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | ||
Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | ||
Red-throated Thrush | Turdus ruficollis | ||
Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | ||
Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | ||
Ross's Goose | Anser rossii | ||
Ross's Gull | Rhodostethia rosea | ||
Rüppell's Vulture | Gyps rueppellii | ||
Rüppell's Warbler | Curruca ruppeli | ||
Sandhill Crane | Antigone 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 Long-tailed Rosefinch | Carpodacus sibiricus | ||
Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | ||
Siberian Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | ||
Snowy Owl | Bubo scandiacus | ||
Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | ||
Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | ||
Sora | Porzana carolina | ||
Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | ||
Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | ||
Sykes's Warbler | Iduna rama | ||
Syrian Woodpecker | Dendrocopos syriacus | ||
Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | ||
Thick-billed Warbler | Arundinax aedon | ||
Tibetan Sand Plover | Charadrius atrifrons | ||
Turkestan Short-toed Lark | Alaudala heinei | ||
Two-barred Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | ||
Two-barred Warbler | Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus | ||
Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | ||
West African Crested Tern | Thalasseus albididorsalis | ||
Western Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna opaca | ||
Western Reef Egret | Egretta gularis | ||
White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | ||
White-crowned Wheatear | Oenanthe leucopyga | ||
White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | ||
White-tailed Plover | Vanellus leucurus | ||
White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | ||
Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | ||
Wilson's Storm Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | ||
Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | ||
Yellow-browed Bunting | Emberiza chrysophrys | ||