Ernst Sutter (7 August 1914 – 9 November 1999) was a Swiss ornithologist and curator at the Basel museum.
In the 1930s he participated in bird ringing at the Swiss Ornithological Institute and went to study zoology under Professor Adolf Portmann.
He joined a collection expedition to Sumba travelling with the ethnologist Alfred Bühler.
[1][2][3] A major research that Sutter undertook was on the study of bird migration using radar that he began at Zurich airport in 1954.
He was an editor of the Swiss journal Der Ornithologische Beobachter and advised many doctoral students.