Webfauna

info fauna

About this app

The Webfauna mobile application makes it easy to enter your animal observations in the field and provides free reference keys to identify dragonflies, butterflies and red zygens, amphibians (larvae and adults), reptiles and mammals in Switzerland. Heavy field guides can be left at home. With the Webfauna mobile application, they are in your pocket:

- Inventory your wildlife observations (except birds) easily using our input form (“Insert data”)
- Locate the location of your observations using the GPS of your smartphone and the Swisstopo base map
- Take photos of your observations to help our experts validate quality data
- Identify your observations using our electronic determination keys (Dragonflies, Amphibians – larvae and adults, Reptiles, Mammals, Butterflies and red zygens)
- Consult our description sheets (“Species Sheets”) to check your identifications. The sheets bring together the distinctive characteristics of the species, distribution, phenology and altitudinal distribution
- Finally, don’t forget to send your data to info fauna (“Your data” then “Send”)
With the Webfauna mobile application, you do not limit yourself to determining, inventorying and transmitting your observations to info fauna. You contribute to enriching knowledge on the distribution of species in time and space and thus, you provide concrete assistance to the protection of nature and species in Switzerland. info fauna collects, homogenizes and ensures the quality of observation data within its database. By complying with the InfoSpecies guidelines concerning the ownership, dissemination and use of data, observation data are made available to the Confederation, cantons, municipalities and other actors in conservation, research and territorial planning (building permits, urbanization, etc.).

info fauna wishes you fascinating wildlife observations and thanks you very much for all the data you transmit with the Webfauna mobile application.

What’s new

- Correction de l’affichage de la carte
- Correction de la clé des papillons de jour