Switzerland
What is recorded in Switzerland
- Species
- 6,714
- Grid cells
- 104,977
- Records
- 17,740,443
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 6,363
- Birds 150
- Mammals 97
- Bony fish 70
- Amphibians 18
- Reptiles 16
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Switzerland, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Switzerland, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Western Roe Deer
Capreolus capreolus
Red Fox
Vulpes vulpes
Alpine Chamois
Rupicapra rupicapra
Common Frog
Rana temporaria
European Hare
Lepus europaeus
Eurasian Beaver
Castor fiber
Eurasian Badger
Meles meles
Common Toad
Bufo bufo
Mesotriton alpestris
Red Deer
Cervus elaphus
Eurasian Red Squirrel
Sciurus vulgaris
Wild Boar
Sus scrofa
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Switzerland.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Switzerland on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.