Barta Zoltán: A Bakony természeti képe 3. - Madarak a Bakonyban I. (Ismeretterjesztő kiadványok; Zirc, 2003)

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Thus, researching the fauna of the digger wasps Pál Benedek (1979) suggested the separation of a further small faunal area, which is called 'Balatoni Riviéra'. Mihály Medvegy (1987) divided the area into northern, southwestern and southeastern parts according to the prevalence of the longhorn beetles. While exploring the fauna of hoverflies Sándor Tóth (2001) suggests as the sixth small area the separation of the 'Bakonyalja' together with the Pannonhalmi-hills. Through this amendment the natural geographical and zoogeographical division became congruent. THE ORNITHOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE MOUNTAINS The zoological research of the Middle-Transdanubian region started in the 1880s. Although the period proceedings do not mention the Bakony Mountains as an independent field of research, but numerous faunistic data derive from here. It is true that the majority of those - due to the Balaton research that has begun in the first few years of the 19th century - refer mainly to the fauna of the Balaton-Highlands, and not tothe 'real' Bakony Mountains. The research of the birds in the Bakony Mountain started relatively late. Even Flóris Römer called attention to this existing faultiness - especially in the field of ornithology -in his work "A Bakony természetrajzi és régészeti vázlata" ('The natural historical and archaeological sketch of the Bakony Mountains') published in 1860. In his publication he stated that these faultinesses would be recovered soon. His hopes did not become true. The ornithologist, Jakab Schenk wrote in the 1920s that the Bakony Mountains were concerning ornithology 'terra incognita'. The exploration of the ornitofauna took a considerable turn in the 1930s, when Géza Entz organized the researches to explore the fauna of the Lake Balaton and its surroundings. These researches also included the exploration of birds. Such famous researchers took part in this work like Nándor Hommonay, András Keve, Imre Pátkai and Albert Vertse. We had only little information about the avifauna of the Bakony Mountains up to the 1960s. From 1962, after the starting of the research programme, called "A Bakony természeti képe" ('The natural picture of the Bakony Mountains') the research of the mountains ran up again. Numerous ornithologists joined in the research. After starting this programme Dezső Tapfer, András Keve and Károly Sági published some monographs, due to which we can get acquainted with the avifauna of the eastern Bakony Mountains (1966), the Keszhelyi Mountains and the Little Bakony Mountains (1970), and that of the Keszhelyi Mountain and its surroundings (1970), and the Balaton-Highland. The other shorter studies give us information about the avifauna of the Kőris Mountain (1973), Tapolcai basin (1978), the southern Bakony and the so called 'Bakonyalja'.