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474 species in the Switzerland dex: 140 Common, 169 Uncommon, 143 Rare, 22 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#008 🦌 Domesticated cattle

#046 🦌 Field vole

#072 🦌 Giant Noctule

#100 🦌 Etruscan Shrew

#156 🐦 Richard's Pipit

#224 🐦 Maned duck

#258 🐦 Eastern Subalpine Warbler

#259 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#271 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#284 🐦 Black-Headed Bunting

#310 🐦 Great Snipe

#312 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#322 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#347 🐦 Lesser Grey Shrike

#373 🐦 Falcated Duck

#382 🐦 Budgerigar

#402 🐦 Rosy-billed Pochard

#427 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#430 🐦 Grey Partridge

#475 🐦 Alexandrine parakeet

#526 🐦 Barred Warbler

#573 🦎 Western Whip Snake

Rare

143

#001 🦌 Alpine Field Mouse

#005 🦌 Italian Water Vole

#011 🦌 Golden jackal

#018 🦌 Sika Deer · introduced

#020 🦌 Bicolored Shrew

#022 🦌 Lesser White-toothed Shrew

#024 🦌 Forest dormouse

#031 🦌 Domestic Cat

#050 🦌 Common Pine Vole

#051 🦌 Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat

#059 🦌 Alcathoe Myotis

#061 🦌 Lesser mouse-eared bat

#062 🦌 Brandt's Myotis

#064 🦌 Hidden Myotis

#070 🦌 Eurasian Water Shrew

#071 🦌 Miller's Water Shrew

#075 🦌 Raccoon Dog · introduced

#077 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#085 🦌 Grey long-eared bat

#087 🦌 Raccoon · introduced

#089 🦌 Black Rat

#095 🦌 Alpine Shrew

#097 🦌 Common Shrew

#098 🦌 Millet's Shrew

#102 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#103 🦌 European Free-Tailed Bat

#104 🦌 Blind Mole

#106 🦌 Siberian chipmunk · introduced

#107 🦌 Brown Bear

#115 🐦 Blyth's Reed Warbler

#116 🐦 Moustached Warbler

#117 🐦 Aquatic Warbler

#125 🐦 Cinereous Vulture

#129 🐦 Wood Duck

#136 🐦 White-cheeked Pintail

#143 🐦 Pink-footed Goose

#146 🐦 Swan Goose

#149 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#150 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#152 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#153 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#160 🐦 Pallid Swift

#169 🐦 Squacco Heron

#171 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#173 🐦 Little Owl

#175 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#183 🐦 Canada goose

#187 🐦 Eurasian Eagle-owl

#192 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#194 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#196 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#197 🐦 Greater Short-toed Lark

#199 🐦 Sanderling

#201 🐦 Red Knot

#202 🐦 Broad-billed Sandpiper

#207 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#212 🐦 Ringed Teal

#213 🐦 European Nightjar

#216 🐦 Common Rosefinch

#219 🐦 Cetti's Warbler

#220 🐦 Kentish Plover

#221 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#223 🐦 Eurasian dotterel

#225 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#226 🐦 White-winged Tern

#232 🐦 Black Stork

#234 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#237 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#238 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#239 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#241 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#248 🐦 European Roller

#256 🐦 Corn Crake

#260 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#263 🐦 Black swan

#264 🐦 Tundra Swan

#268 🐦 White-backed Woodpecker

#272 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#277 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#282 🐦 Ortolan Bunting

#283 🐦 Pine Bunting

#285 🐦 Little Bunting

#294 🐦 Merlin

#301 🐦 Collared Flycatcher

#318 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#319 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#321 🐦 Northern Bald Ibis

#328 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#330 🐦 White-tailed Eagle

#331 🐦 Booted Eagle

#333 🐦 Icterine Warbler

#337 🐦 Caspian Tern

#338 🐦 Audouin's Gull

#340 🐦 Little Bittern

#349 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#355 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#359 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#365 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#375 🐦 Chiloe Wigeon

#378 🐦 Common Scoter

#381 🐦 Calandra Lark

#384 🐦 Smew

#393 🐦 Blue rock thrush

#397 🐦 Citrine Wagtail

#416 🐦 Eurasian Scops Owl

#417 🐦 Ruddy Duck · introduced

#426 🐦 Rosy Starling

#434 🐦 Red Phalarope

#435 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#445 🐦 Yellow-browed Warbler

#457 🐦 Snow Bunting

#458 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#459 🐦 European Golden Plover

#461 🐦 Grey Plover

#470 🐦 Little Crake

#472 🐦 Baillon's Crake

#476 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#481 🐦 Red-billed Chough

#484 🐦 Pied Avocet

#489 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#504 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#505 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#506 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#507 🐦 Great Skua

#510 🐦 Arctic Tern

#511 🐦 Little Tern

#513 🐦 Oriental Turtle Dove

#531 🐦 South African Shelduck

#535 🐦 Western Capercaillie

#539 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#540 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#547 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#561 🐦 Terek Sandpiper

#569 🦎 Smooth Snake

#571 🦎 European Pond Turtle

#584 🦎 Dice Snake

#587 🐸 Pool Frog

#588 🐸 Marsh Frog

#600 🦎 Pond Slider

#603 🦎 Asp viper

#604 🦎 Adder

#605 🦎 Aesculapian Snake

#606 🦎 Viviparous Lizard

Uncommon

169

#002 🦌 Yellow-necked Field Mouse

#003 🦌 Wood Mouse

#006 🦌 Western Barbastelle

#012 🦌 Wolf

#019 🦌 European Snow Vole

#021 🦌 Greater White-toothed Shrew

#025 🦌 Garden Dormouse

#026 🦌 Northern Bat

#027 🦌 Serotine

#032 🦌 Wildcat

#035 🦌 Savi's Pipistrelle

#038 🦌 European otter

#039 🦌 Eurasian Lynx

#045 🦌 Harvest Mouse

#047 🦌 Common vole

#048 🦌 Mediterranean Field Vole

#052 🦌 House Mouse

#053 🦌 Hazel dormouse

#055 🦌 Least Weasel

#057 🦌 Coypu · introduced

#060 🦌 Bechstein's Bat

#069 🦌 Natterer's Bat

#073 🦌 Lesser noctule

#074 🦌 Noctule

#076 🦌 Muskrat · introduced

#078 🦌 Red Sheep · introduced

#080 🦌 Kuhl's Pipistrelle

#081 🦌 Nathusius's pipistrelle

#083 🦌 Soprano Pipistrelle

#086 🦌 Alpine Long-eared bat

#088 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#090 🦌 Greater Horseshoe Bat

#091 🦌 Lesser Horseshoe Bat

#096 🦌 Valais shrew

#099 🦌 Eurasian Pygmy Shrew

#105 🦌 European Mole

#109 🦌 Parti-coloured Bat

#111 🐦 Common Redpoll

#112 🐦 Northern Goshawk

#114 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#118 🐦 Marsh Warbler

#119 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#124 🐦 Boreal Owl

#128 🐦 Mandarin Duck · introduced

#133 🐦 Rock Partridge

#134 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#135 🐦 Northern Pintail

#141 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#155 🐦 Meadow pipit

#158 🐦 Tree pipit

#161 🐦 Golden Eagle

#168 🐦 Purple Heron

#170 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#172 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#178 🐦 Greater scaup

#179 🐦 Ferruginous Duck

#181 🐦 Eurasian Bittern

#185 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#186 🐦 Red-breasted Goose

#188 🐦 Cattle Egret

#191 🐦 Common goldeneye

#200 🐦 Dunlin

#203 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#208 🐦 Little Stint

#209 🐦 Ruff

#211 🐦 Temminck's Stint

#215 🐦 Citril Finch

#222 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#227 🐦 Black Tern

#235 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#236 🐦 Hen Harrier

#246 🐦 Stock Dove

#251 🐦 Hooded crow

#254 🐦 Common Quail

#265 🐦 Whooper Swan

#270 🐦 Middle Spotted Woodpecker

#274 🐦 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

#276 🐦 Little Egret

#278 🐦 Corn Bunting

#279 🐦 Rock Bunting

#280 🐦 Cirl Bunting

#297 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#298 🐦 Eurasian Hobby

#300 🐦 Red-footed Falcon

#306 🐦 Brambling

#315 🐦 Black-throated Diver

#316 🐦 Common Loon

#323 🐦 Eurasian Pygmy Owl

#324 🐦 Common Crane

#325 🐦 Bearded Vulture

#326 🐦 Griffon Vulture

#332 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#334 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#336 🐦 Little Gull

#339 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#341 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#342 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#345 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#350 🐦 Herring Gull

#351 🐦 Caspian Gull

#353 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#360 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#363 🐦 Savi's Warbler

#364 🐦 Common Grasshopper Warbler

#368 🐦 Woodlark

#370 🐦 Bluethroat

#371 🐦 Jack snipe

#372 🐦 Black Grouse

#374 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#377 🐦 Velvet Scoter

#386 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#387 🐦 European Bee-eater

#389 🐦 Pygmy Cormorant

#392 🐦 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush

#394 🐦 White-Winged Snowfinch

#398 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#406 🐦 Whimbrel

#408 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#415 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#419 🐦 Osprey

#420 🐦 Bearded Reedling

#424 🐦 Italian Sparrow

#432 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#436 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#441 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#448 🐦 Wood Warbler

#453 🐦 Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker

#454 🐦 Grey-headed woodpecker

#456 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#462 🐦 Horned Grebe

#464 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#465 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#471 🐦 Spotted Crake

#473 🐦 Alpine Accentor

#487 🐦 Eurasian Penduline Tit

#488 🐦 Sand Martin

#491 🐦 Whinchat

#493 🐦 African stonechat

#494 🐦 Eurasian Woodcock

#499 🐦 Common Eider

#502 🐦 Garganey

#515 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#516 🐦 Tawny Owl

#522 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#524 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#532 🐦 Ruddy Shelduck

#533 🐦 Common Shelduck

#536 🐦 Hazel Grouse

#541 🐦 Wallcreeper

#542 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#544 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#545 🐦 Common Greenshank

#546 🐦 Green sandpiper

#548 🐦 Common Redshank

#550 🐦 Redwing

#554 🐦 Ring Ouzel

#556 🐦 Barn Owl

#557 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#563 🦎 Slow Worm

#575 🐸 Italian Tree Frog

#577 🦎 Sand Lizard

#578 🦎 Western Green Lizard

#583 🦎 Grass Snake

#591 🦎 Common Wall Lizard

#594 🐸 Agile Frog

#595 🐸 Italian Agile Frog

#597 🐸 Alpine Salamander

#601 🐸 Italian Crested Newt · introduced

#602 🐸 Crested newt

Common

140

#004 🦌 Eurasian Water Vole

#014 🦌 Alpine ibex

#015 🦌 Roe Deer

#016 🦌 Eurasian Beaver

#017 🦌 Red deer

#030 🦌 West European Hedgehog

#034 🦌 Fat Dormouse

#036 🦌 European Hare

#037 🦌 Mountain Hare

#041 🦌 Alpine Marmot

#042 🦌 Beech Marten

#043 🦌 European Pine Marten

#044 🦌 European Badger

#054 🦌 Ermine

#056 🦌 European Polecat

#058 🦌 Bank Vole

#065 🦌 Daubenton's Bat

#066 🦌 Geoffroy's Bat

#067 🦌 Greater Mouse-eared Bat

#068 🦌 Whiskered Bat

#082 🦌 Common Pipistrelle

#084 🦌 Brown Long-eared Bat

#092 🦌 Chamois

#094 🦌 Eurasian Red Squirrel

#101 🦌 Wild Boar

#110 🦌 Red Fox

#113 🐦 Eurasian Sparrowhawk

#120 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#121 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#123 🐦 Long-tailed Tit

#130 🐦 Eurasian Skylark

#131 🐦 Common Kingfisher

#138 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#140 🐦 Mallard

#142 🐦 Greylag Goose

#157 🐦 Water Pipit

#159 🐦 Common Swift

#166 🐦 Great Egret

#167 🐦 Grey Heron

#176 🐦 Common Pochard

#177 🐦 Tufted Duck

#193 🐦 Common Buzzard

#214 🐦 European Goldfinch

#217 🐦 Short-toed Treecreeper

#218 🐦 Eurasian Treecreeper

#228 🐦 European greenfinch

#230 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#231 🐦 White stork

#233 🐦 White-throated Dipper

#242 🐦 Hawfinch

#244 🐦 Western Jackdaw

#245 🐦 Rock Dove

#247 🐦 Common Wood Pigeon

#250 🐦 Common Raven

#252 🐦 Carrion Crow

#253 🐦 Rook

#257 🐦 Common Cuckoo

#262 🐦 Eurasian Blue Tit

#266 🐦 Mute Swan

#267 🐦 Common house martin

#269 🐦 Great Spotted Woodpecker

#275 🐦 Black Woodpecker

#281 🐦 Yellowhammer

#287 🐦 Reed Bunting

#289 🐦 European Robin

#299 🐦 Common Kestrel

#302 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#305 🐦 Common Chaffinch

#307 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#309 🐦 Common snipe

#311 🐦 Common Moorhen

#313 🐦 Eurasian Jay

#335 🐦 Barn Swallow

#343 🐦 Red-backed Shrike

#352 🐦 Mew Gull

#356 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#361 🐦 Common Linnet

#366 🐦 European Crested Tit

#367 🐦 Red Crossbill

#369 🐦 Common Nightingale

#376 🐦 Gadwall

#385 🐦 Goosander

#390 🐦 Black Kite

#391 🐦 Red Kite

#395 🐦 White Wagtail

#396 🐦 Grey Wagtail

#399 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#403 🐦 Red-crested Pochard

#404 🐦 Spotted Nutcracker

#405 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#414 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#421 🐦 Great Tit

#422 🐦 House sparrow

#425 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

#431 🐦 Coal Tit

#433 🐦 Great Cormorant

#439 🐦 Black Redstart

#440 🐦 Common Redstart

#442 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#451 🐦 Willow Warbler

#452 🐦 Eurasian Magpie

#455 🐦 European Green Woodpecker

#463 🐦 Great Crested Grebe

#466 🐦 Willow Tit

#467 🐦 Marsh Tit

#474 🐦 Dunnock

#477 🐦 Eurasian Crag Martin

#480 🐦 Alpine Chough

#482 🐦 Eurasian Bullfinch

#483 🐦 Water Rail

#485 🐦 Firecrest

#486 🐦 Goldcrest

#492 🐦 European Stonechat

#496 🐦 European Serin

#498 🐦 Eurasian Nuthatch

#500 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#503 🐦 Eurasian Siskin

#509 🐦 Common Tern

#512 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove

#518 🐦 Common Starling

#519 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#520 🐦 Garden Warbler

#529 🐦 Little Grebe

#530 🐦 Alpine Swift

#549 🐦 Winter Wren

#551 🐦 Common Blackbird

#552 🐦 Song Thrush

#553 🐦 Fieldfare

#555 🐦 Mistle Thrush

#559 🐦 Northern Lapwing

#562 🐸 Midwife toad

#566 🐸 Yellow-bellied Toad

#567 🐸 Common Toad

#572 🐸 Natterjack

#574 🐸 Common Tree Frog

#576 🐸 Alpine Newt

#580 🐸 Palmate Newt

#581 🐸 Smooth Newt

#596 🐸 Common frog

#598 🐸 Fire Salamander

Vagrants

132

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#007 🦌 Yak

#009 🦌 Water Buffalo

#010 🦌 Pallas's Squirrel

#013 🦌 Domestic goat

#023 🦌 Fallow Deer

#028 🦌 Ass

#029 🦌 Horse

#033 🦌 Common Genet

#040 🦌 Alaska Marmot

#049 🦌 Alpine Pine Vole

#063 🦌 Long-fingered bat

#079 🦌 Mouflon

#093 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#108 🦌 Red Ruffed Lemur

#122 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#126 🐦 Fischer's Lovebird

#127 🐦 Yellow-collared Lovebird

#132 🐦 Chukar

#137 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#139 🐦 Yellow-billed Teal

#144 🐦 Snow Goose

#145 🐦 Emperor Goose

#147 🐦 Lesser White-fronted Goose

#148 🐦 Bean Goose

#151 🐦 Demoiselle Crane

#154 🐦 Olive-backed Pipit

#162 🐦 Greater spotted eagle

#163 🐦 Bonelli's Eagle

#164 🐦 Lesser Spotted Eagle

#165 🐦 Blue-crowned parakeet

#174 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#180 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#182 🐦 Brent Goose

#184 🐦 Cackling Goose

#189 🐦 Trumpeter Finch

#190 🐦 Bufflehead

#195 🐦 Long-Legged Buzzard

#198 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#204 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#205 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#206 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#210 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#229 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#240 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#243 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#249 🐦 Pied Crow

#255 🐦 Japanese Quail

#261 🐦 Moltoni's Warbler

#273 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#286 🐦 Rustic Bunting

#288 🐦 Horned Lark

#290 🐦 Common Waxbill

#291 🐦 Scarlet Ibis

#292 🐦 Indian Silverbill

#293 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#295 🐦 Eleonora's Falcon

#296 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#303 🐦 Red-breasted Flycatcher

#304 🐦 Semicollared Flycatcher

#308 🐦 Crested lark

#314 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#317 🐦 Pacific Loon

#320 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#327 🐦 Rüppell's Vulture

#329 🐦 House Finch

#344 🐦 Brown Shrike

#346 🐦 Isabelline Shrike

#348 🐦 Long-tailed Shrike

#354 🐦 Iceland Gull

#357 🐦 Laughing Gull

#358 🐦 Franklin's gull

#362 🐦 River Warbler

#379 🐦 Surf Scoter

#380 🐦 Bimaculated Lark

#383 🐦 Song Sparrow

#388 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#400 🐦 Monk Parakeet

#401 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#407 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#409 🐦 Cockatiel

#410 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#411 🐦 Desert Wheatear

#412 🐦 Black-eared Wheatear

#413 🐦 Isabelline Wheatear

#418 🐦 White-Headed Duck

#423 🐦 Spanish Sparrow

#428 🐦 Dalmatian Pelican

#429 🐦 Great White Pelican

#437 🐦 Chilean Flamingo

#438 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#443 🐦 Hume's Leaf Warbler

#444 🐦 Iberian Chiffchaff

#446 🐦 Pallas's Leaf Warbler

#447 🐦 Radde's Warbler

#449 🐦 Siberian Chiffchaff

#450 🐦 Greenish Warbler

#460 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#468 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#469 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#478 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#479 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#490 🐦 Siberian Stonechat

#495 🐦 Atlantic Canary

#497 🐦 Baikal Teal

#501 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#508 🐦 Roseate Tern

#514 🐦 African Collared Dove

#517 🐦 Spotless Starling

#521 🐦 Subalpine Warbler

#523 🐦 Spectacled Warbler

#525 🐦 Sardinian Warbler

#527 🐦 Dartford Warbler

#528 🐦 Reeves's Pheasant

#534 🐦 Zebra Finch

#537 🐦 Little Bustard

#538 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#543 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#558 🐦 Sociable Lapwing

#560 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#564 🦎 Italian Slow Worm

#565 🐸 Oriental Bell Toad

#568 🐸 Green Toad

#570 🦎 Armenian Lizard

#579 🦎 Eastern Green Lizard

#582 🦎 Viperine Snake

#585 🐸 Italian Pool Frog

#586 🐸 Balkan Frog

#589 🦎 Indian Day Gecko

#590 🦎 Erhard's Wall Lizard

#592 🦎 Italian Wall Lizard

#593 🐸 Moor Frog

#599 🦎 Moorish Gecko