Wintering Waterbirds in Switzerland: Results of the Swiss Waterbird Monitoring 2014/2015 and 2015/2016

Since 1967, waterbirds are systematically counted in Switzerland as part of the International Waterbird Census. The collected data is a valuable base for assessing the situation of the waterbird populations and the importance of sites in Switzerland and at the international level. Previously, the results of the winter waterbird census were published in annual reports usually around one year after the census. Following the last of these reports (Müller & Keller 2015) reporting on national monitoring programmes was restructured. The main results are integrated in a status report (for the recent update see Sattler et al. 2016). From now on, the detailed results are published in a short summary report with accompanying information on the web as an annex to the status report. As a result of the changes in the reporting cycle we decided not to publish a separate report for the season 2014/2015 but to integrate the results in the present report.