A woodland and garden bird, also found in trees at the edge of agricultural land. About the sizeof a Blackbird, brown colours and boldly spotted breast are features to note. Song a melodious flutey series of whistles with most phrases repeated several times.
A large thrush with a conspicuous darkly spotted breast. A bird of woods and forests which sings loudly from an exposed perch.
A summer visitor to river banks and wetlands in the northwest of Switzerland. It has a characteristic wild song whose pattern is very hard to describe - have a listen.
A bird mostly confined to reed beds where it can be hard to see but is easily heard.
A bird of the reed beds, for a warbler it is quite large and has a distinctive rough tone to its song.
A shy bird of the reedbeds, difficult to see and difficult to hear as it sounds like an insect:
A rather uncommon bird of scrubby vegetation. Not that hard to see, it gives a hurried little scratchy song often from an exposed perch.
The definitive “little brown job”, shy and hides and sings in dense vegetation. The song is hard to distinguish from Blackcap.
A common bird of forests, scrub and mature gardens, difficult to see as it usually hides in dense vegetation. The black cap of the male is unmistakable. The song is rather rapid and scratchy, and easily confused with a Garden Warbler.
A pretty little yellowish warbler of broad-leafed woodlands whose song heralds the arrival of spring.
A small warbler very similar to the Willow Warbler but with black legs not brown. But a very distinctive and pleasant song that bounces up and down.
A small warbler very similar to the Chiff Chaff but with brown legs not black. But a very distinctive and pleasant song:
Two small warblers very similar in appearance habits and sounds. This entry will help you identify them.
A bird of lowland scrub and deciduous woodlands normally below 1000m. Sociable and normally encountered in flocks, so the most frequently heard sounds seem like contact calls.
A very common bird of woodlands and forests that has thrived in gardens and agricultural areas. Its basic song has many variations but is a ringing “teacher-teacher-teacher” .
Common in all woodlands but especially in pine forests up to the treeline. Its song is variable but all variants are based on the same basic two-note see-sawing “whee-choo”.
Found in most habitats below 1500m and a common garden bird in the lowlands. The song is a complex mixture of a harsh “churr” preceded by high-pitched notes.
Despite the name this is a woodland bird found up to 1500m. Very difficult to separate from Willow Tit by eye, but with a diagnostic explosive call which easily separates these two.
Common in all woodlands but especially in pine forests up to the treeline at 2500m. There are two subspecies in Switzerland that have different songs, so voice is key in identifying this species. Click to learn the differences.
Found in pine forests from 500m up to the treeline this tiny active bird is lovely to look at. The song is quite faint and easily overlooked.
