Contents of the atlas
No limits to leisure activities?
Many bird habitats are also used by humans for recreation and leisure sports. These human activities cause varying degrees of disturbance which can lead…
Monitoring birds in Switzerland
In the 1980s, the Swiss Ornithological Institute launched a range of monitoring schemes that are carried out with the help of volunteers. The data serve…
Agriculture has a responsibility for bird conservation
The federal government has defined target and characteristic species that merit special conservation efforts in agricultural environments. Despite the…
The Swiss breeding bird atlas in a nutshell (Explainervideo)
In a nutshell - a short movie of the Swiss breeding bird atlas
How was the swiss breeding bird atlas book made?
A short video shows how the book was produced at the printing company Stämpfli AG and at the bindery Bubu AG.
The atlas project presented enormous challenges in terms of the organisation of fieldwork, the search for volunteers and the subsequent analysis of data. The approximately 200 species of breeding birds require different survey methods depending on their occurrence, abundance and biology. Methods for producing the maps are also varied.