Barta Zoltán: A Bakony természeti képe 3. - Madarak a Bakonyban I. (Ismeretterjesztő kiadványok; Zirc, 2003)
Angol nyelvű összefoglaló
THE BIRDS OF THE BAKONY MOUNTAINS I. INTRODUCTION At different estimations 20-25 thousand sub-species of animals live in the Bakony Mountain. (The fauna of Hungary amounts to about 43 000 species.) The landspecies are prevalent in this fauna, although there are numerous aquatic animals and animals that develop in water. The vertebrate are represented by more hundred species of the five classes: fishes (Pisces), amphibian (Amphibia), reptilian (Reptilia), birds (Aves) and mammals (Mammalia). At present it can be said that the most researched group of the vertebrate fauna of the Bakony Mountains is that of the birds: on the territory of the Bakony Mountains and on its perimeter 286 bird species can be found from the 373 species that were observed in our country up to now. The permanent exhibition of the Natural History Museum of the Bakony Mountains displays among others this rich avifauna. In this brochure - conforming to the typical habitats of the Bakony Mountains - we try to give as much information as possible about these interesting animals. At the habitats we mention not only the frequent species, but also the rarities of the Bakony Mountains (like the goldcrest, imperial eagle, eagle owl etc.). We give not only the Hungarian and scientific, but also the English name of the species discussed. After the scientific name there is an abbreviation (like L. 1) that refers to the place of the given bird within the diorama. Illustrations and colour photos help to identify certain species. THE ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL DIVISION OF THE BAKONY MOUNTAIN The natural geographical Bakony Mountains with an extent of 4 000 km 2 is the biggest landscape of the Transdanubian Range. It is bordered by the Lake Balaton and the plain of Mezőföld in the south and southeast, by the Vértes Mountains in the east, by the Little Plain in northwest and west. The Bakony Mountains as a zoogeographical unit is part of the district of the Hungarian Mountain Range (Matricum), which belongs to the Central-Danubian faunal region, and it is the same as the faunái area, called Bakonyicum. Jenő Papp (1968) was the first person who divided the Bakony Mountains into small areas with the help of 75 so called colouring species of animals. He distinguished five areas: the Balaton-Highlands, the Keszthelyi Mountain, the southern Bakony Mountains, the northern Bakony Mountains, and the eastern Bakony Mountains (1. illustration), which are expected even today. During the research of certain insect families further divisions had to be made.
