🇨🇭 Animals of Switzerland

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The bearded vulture is a huge mountain raptor that lives almost entirely on bone.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The carrion crow is an all-black crow of western Europe and eastern Asia with a heavy bill and a harsh croak.

The chamois is a small goat-antelope of the steep mountains of Europe and western Asia, with hooked horns and a striped face.

The common blackbird is a true thrush of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and the male is glossy black with a yellow eye-ring.

The common buzzard is a broad-winged hawk of Europe and northern Asia, and the commonest bird of prey across most of that range.

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common nightingale is a small brown songbird of dense scrub in Europe and western Asia.

The common swift is a blackish-brown bird with narrow curved wings that catches every meal in the air.

The Eurasian blue tit is a small blue and yellow songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest owls in the world, with orange eyes and long ear tufts.

The Eurasian jay is a pinkish-brown crow with a bright blue panel on each wing.

The Eurasian lynx is the biggest of the four lynx species and the largest wild cat in Europe.

The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a small hawk that hunts other birds by ambush.

The European badger is a stocky, striped-faced mustelid that lives in family clans across Europe and western Asia.

The European pine marten is a cat-sized mustelid with a brown coat and a cream bib.

The European polecat is a dark, stocky mustelid with a pale face mask that hunts frogs, voles and rabbits by night.

The European robin is a small orange breasted songbird of European woods, parks and gardens.

The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

The great tit is the largest European tit, with a black head, white cheeks and a yellow breast.

The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The long-tailed tit is a tiny black, white and pink bird with a tail longer than its body.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.

The mute swan is a large white waterbird of lakes, rivers and sheltered coasts across Europe and Asia.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red squirrel is a small tree squirrel of the conifer and broadleaf forests of Europe and northern Asia.

The rock ptarmigan is a grouse of high mountains and Arctic tundra that changes colour with the seasons.

The roe deer is the smallest and most common deer in Europe, red in summer and grey in winter.

The stoat is a small, long-bodied weasel of Europe, northern Asia and the Arctic edge of North America.

The tawny owl is the common night owl of European woodland, with a round head, black eyes and no ear tufts.

The white stork is a large white bird with black wings, a red bill and long red legs.