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© Simon Birrer
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Winterberg golf course: a fallow area next to the fairway. The posts with a green cap indicate that golfers are not allowed to enter the fallow land.

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© Simon Birrer

Küssnacht a.R. golf course: the landscape is characterised by numerous individual trees. Boulders are used as obstacles in golf.

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© Simon Birrer

Andermatt golf course: large biodiversity promotion areas between the golf courses enable a thriving population of Whinchats to live here.

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© Simon Birrer

Vorbildliche Grabenpflege auf dem Golfplatz Schönenberg.

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© Dominik Hagist

Oberkirch: grosse, spät geschnittene Blumenwiesen sind Lebensraum für viele Schmetterlinge und Heuschrecken.

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©
© Simon Birrer
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© Simon Birrer
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© Simon Birrer
©
© Simon Birrer
©
© Simon Birrer
©
© Dominik Hagist

Winterberg golf course: a fallow area next to the fairway. The posts with a green cap indicate that golfers are not allowed to enter the fallow land.

Küssnacht a.R. golf course: the landscape is characterised by numerous individual trees. Boulders are used as obstacles in golf.

Andermatt golf course: large biodiversity promotion areas between the golf courses enable a thriving population of Whinchats to live here.

Vorbildliche Grabenpflege auf dem Golfplatz Schönenberg.

Oberkirch: grosse, spät geschnittene Blumenwiesen sind Lebensraum für viele Schmetterlinge und Heuschrecken.

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Golf

Birds on golf courses

Golf courses take up a lot of land. However, there is space between the areas used for playing to provide valuable semi-natural habitats for more demanding animal and plant species. The Swiss Ornithological Institute has studied the breeding bird fauna of several golf courses and draws conclusions as to how a “near-natural” golf course should be designed and maintained.

Domain Conservation
Unit Agricultural Habitat
Topics Habitat Promotion
Habitat semi-open farmland
Project start 1992
Project completion 2025
Project status completed
Project management Kim Meichtry-Stier
Project region Switzerland

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Project partner(s)

Financial support

  • Aufträge diverser Golfclubs

Publications

Employees

Avatar Kim Meichtry-Stier
Agricultural Habitat employee
Kim Meichtry-Stier
+41 41 462 97 89
kim.meichtry@vogelwarte.ch
Avatar Arnaud Barras
Employee of the regional Office Valais
Arnaud Barras
+41 41 462 99 31
arnaud.barras@vogelwarte.ch

Species concerned

Whinchat
Garden Warbler
Yellowhammer
Western House Martin
Red-backed Shrike
European Goldfinch
Marsh Warbler
Common Moorhen
Common Reed Warbler
Fieldfare
Little Grebe
Other resources
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Standpunkt der Schweizerischen Vogelwarte zum Thema Golfplätze (in German)
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Agricultural Habitat

We promote wildlife-friendly agriculture with more high-quality and better-connected habitats, fewer artificial fertilisers and fewer pesticides.

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Additional projects

Valais vineyards and avifauna
Promoting biodiversity in Valais vines
Resource-conserving measures in arable farming to promote biodiversity
Producing food in a biodiversity-friendly and resource-saving way
Promotion of biodiversity in intensive fruit cultivation in the Swiss Rhone valley
Measures to bring life to orchards
Species promotion – Eurasian Skylark
Protection and promotion for the “minstrel of the air”
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