A debreceni Déri Múzeum állandó természettudományi kiállításai. Ásványok világa. Tájunk madarai (Debrecen, 1999)

marvellously rhapsodical. The black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) is a long-legged, long straight beaked riparian bird, the curlew's (Numenius arquata) beak is not straight but curwed down. Many bird species live on the water and in the circumlittoral lands

. Our exhibition shows some of those who like the open surface: the great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) which builds its nest from decomposing vegetable parts, the teal (Anas C7"ecca), the wigeon (Anaspenelope)

, the shoveler (Anas clypeata), the tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)

, the ferruginous duck (Aytha nyroca) which swim together in small or bigger groups, the common tern (Sterna hirundo) fishing small fish on the surface. The black kite (Milvus migrans) broods always near the water. It is easy to identify because of its bifurcate tail. The penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) build his lopping nest on the near-water willows. The big white-tailed eagle (Haliaétus albicilla) builds his nest on the high trees of near water forests. He lifts fishis, birds out of the water skilfully, hunts mammals but in whiter consumes carcass too. This bird is particularly sensible to human disturbance. The purple and grey heron - which fly with drawn in neck prefer the dense reed-beds. The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) likes to nest on trees in colonies but likes to nest together with the purple heron (Ardea purpurea) in dense reed-beds. The bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a heron species of the swamps, moors and lakes also. It is a bird with the size of the crow hiding in the reed-bed. It feeds by night, capturing small fishes, frogs. Its cry is powerful, thick as it were a big animal. Migrating bird. The spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is nesting in colonies often with other species -egrets, purple herons, quawks - together. It is a big, white plumaged bird, and as an exception of the other herons it draws out its neck by frying. Its name came from the cochleariform beak. It looks for food in the shallow water with the beak under the water. Migrating bird, it arrives in early spring and leaves at the end of September. The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) which builds his nest low with reed, broods agam in Hortobágy since 1987.