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Birds of Switzerland

All photographs in this gallery were taken in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

© 2004-2012 Dennis P. Lorenz

Blue Tit	Crested Tit	Great Tit	Coal Tit
Marsh Tit	Greenfinch	Red-backed Shrike	European Robin
House Sparrow	Tree Sparrow	Black Redstart	Chiffchaff
White Wagtail	Eurasian Nuthatch	Short-toed Treecreeper	Alpine Chough
European Bee-eater	Spotted Nutcracker	Common Kestrel	Grey Heron
Chaffinch	White Stork	House Martin	Winter Wren
Marsh Warbler	Firecrest	Peregrine Falcon	Alpine Swift
Stonechat	Corncrake	Dotterel	Great Spotted Woodpecker
Mandarin Duck	Eurasian Teal	Eurasian Siskin	White-winged Snowfinch
White-throated Dipper	Ferruginous Duck	Eurasian Coot	Great Crested Grebe
Black-headed Gull	Red-crested Pochard	Lesser Whitethroat	Willow Warbler
Great Reed Warbler

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Hennie	PM reply	22-Mar-2012 17:25
Excellent collection !

Jean Metz		20-Mar-2012 10:44
Switzerland - Near a small river today I saw a large bird similar to a grey heron but black with a distinctive long neck . It was around 60 cm tall. The plumage was completely black and it had a long thin beak which was a light orange colour. Are there black herons? I searched through all the birds which breed in Switzerland but couldn't find any resembling this one. Any idea what it is ?

thchang	PM reply	15-Mar-2012 13:19
Excellent collection. Thanks for sharing. Voted!!!

Christopher Plummer	PM reply	23-Jan-2012 18:12
Hello Dennis, thanks for your kind comment concerning my gallery. You have some excellent photos here - the last time I saw a corncrake in Switzerland, I don't think digital cameras had been invented! Christopher

Jeremy & Cristelle		21-Dec-2011 17:52
Dear Mr. Lorenz, We also live in switzerland. We live in the Alps at 1300 mtrs. We are quite close to Martigny and right now we have over a half meter of snow. We have a number of bird feeders on our front terrace and today we have had a regular vistor...Here the bird is called the Alpine Ascentor. We see from the pictures above that you don't have this bird in your collection of pictures above. So we would be very happy to send you a number of pictures we shot of this bird today. please let us know if you would like to receive these. kind Regrads Jeremy & Cristelle

B. Johnson		31-Aug-2011 12:55
Thank you for this collection of Switzerland Birds. I am leaving for my first visit to Switzerland this weekend, and I am looking forward to seeing which of these birds I will encounter on my trip. The photos are excellent!

Chuck		02-Jun-2011 13:13
Mr. Lopez, your photos are just magnificent and allowed me to identify the black redstarts which have been hovering around my barbecue grill every time I go to cook hamburgers. It turns out that they have made a nest..... inside the plastic bag in which I keep the barbecue tools! That nest now has at least one baby bird chirping away incessantly while its parents flutter by and screech trying to convince me to go away. I've enjoyed having these visitors and only hope the youngster(s) learn to leave the nest before summer's out so that I can use my barbecue tools before winter sets in! :-)

Veronica Riemer		11-May-2011 09:25
I think I have a pair of "Black Redstart" birds in my garden, busy feeding their babies in the nest on the rafters outside my bedroom window. Can you tell me if they make "clucking" sounds? Every time I go out on the terrace they go mad with their clucking as if to warn me off.

Guest		04-Sep-2010 06:37
Thanks so much for your wonderful pictures. It's so nice to be able to identify these birds when they come into our garden to splash in our birdbath.

guest		29-May-2010 18:02
amazing pics...thank you very much :)

Stephanie		27-Apr-2010 15:10
I'm working on a project for my Girl Scout camp, and I would love to know more about Swiss birds in general; lots of pictures; how different are they from North American birds? Thanks!!!

Jayaraj Ramesh	PM reply	29-Jul-2008 09:38
Can i know your equipment ? thanks

caroline regan		27-Jul-2008 16:25
Hello again! Many apologies for my incorrect spelling of the Schilthorn. Caroline Regan

caroline regan		27-Jul-2008 16:16
Hello, I have just returned from a holiday in Switzerland. I was at the top of the Shylthorn on Thursday 24 July and was lucky enough to see two very large birds of prey circling below and overhead for approximately 20 minutes. This was witnessed by about 30 people and a German or Swiss man told me they were Golden Eagles. They had a black head and some white markings on there tail feathers. Do you happen to know if Golden Eagles been seen in this region, please? Kind regards Caroline Regan

Artist from canton of Fribourg		23-May-2008 15:11
thankyou! I moved to Switzerland recently, & thanks to your site, have found the lovely bird that I have been seeing through the window, is actually a "Black Redstart" .What a wonderful little chap he is! merci bien

Naturephoto Monique	PM reply	03-Feb-2008 16:29
Beautiful gallery you have!

Estelle and Johannes		15-Nov-2007 09:32
Dear Mr. Lorenz, We really like all your bird photographs! We actually live in Switzerland and we can see a lot of these birds outside around our patio. By looking at your website, we were able to identify them. They are so sweet. In winter, we put feed out for them which they like. Thank you for sharing your pictures!

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