Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
Phylum Vertebrata 211 (Limosa lapponica), little tern (Sterna albifrons) and snow goose (Anser caerulescens — MME NOMENCLATOR BIZOTTSÁG 1998a). The 1997 certified the following observations from the West Hungarian border region: the Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus), white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Brent goose (Branta bernicla), spotted eagle (Aquila clanga), knot (Calidris canutus), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), great skua (Stercorarius skua), kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), Sandwich tern (Sterna sandvicensis), little tern (S. albifrons), scarlet rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus), Canada goose (Branta canadensis), ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) and bar-headed goose (Anser indicus —MNE NOMENCLATOR BIZOTTSÁG 1998b). The foundation of the Hungarian Ornithological Society in 1974 marked a great advance towards organizing a national network of bird observers. This is one reason why 27 new species have been added to the Hungarian bird register in the last two decades. An account of the additions appeared in the first issue of GÁBOR MAGYAR'S periodical (MAGYAR 1996). 94 The bulletin and the Western Hungarian periodical of the Hungarian Ornithological Society 95 have regularly reported the latest bird-fauna developments and interesting observations, including many observations from the West Hungarian border region (ANON. 1979a, 1979b, 1982, 1984, 1987a, 1987b, 1988 and 1993; FÜLÖP 1993a, 1993b, 1995 and 1999; HADARICS 94 Túzok (Bustard) is the successor to Madárh 95 Madártani Tájékoztató and Szélkiáltó (Wind 1995, 1999g and 1999h; HARASZTHY and MOLNÁR 1981; KÁRPÁTI 1997; MOLNÁR 1982e, 1983, 1984a, 1984b, 1985a, 1985b, 1985c, 1985d, 1992 and 1993; PELLINGER and SOPRONI 1995 and 1999). This continues in the new periodical, where communications summarize rare and interesting occurrences, many of them in the West Hungarian border region (HADARICS 1996a, 1996b, 1996c, 1996d, 1997a, 1997b, 1997c, 1998a, 1998b, 1998c, 1998d, 1999d, 1999e and 1999f; PELLINGER and MOGYORÓSI 2001; SZIMULY and MOGYORÓSI in press). The bulletin also contains lists of vagrancies, with details of passage migrants and breeding pairs staying the summer or overwintering (MOLNÁR 1987; METZL 1989; PELLINGER and MOGYORÓSI 1989; AMBRUS 1991; JÁNOSKA 1993b). The first certifying specimen of the Alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) was shot by LAJOS MOLNÁR at Döröske on January 24, 1933 (CSABA 1937b). Another observation was made above Egervár on November 17, 1935. A bird was then observed by SÁNDOR FARAGÓ and ANDRÁS NÁHLIK (1985) at Velem (Hosszúvölgy) on February 11, 1985, when its appearance may have had to do with bitter weather (-15° C), which stimulates migration. Earlier, JAKAB SCHENK (193 Of) had recorded an occurrence at Purbach am Neusiedler See (Feketeváros), where LÁSZLÓ SOLYMOSY (1936) also made an observation. The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) was first shown to breed in Western Hungary by LAJOS MOLNÁR (see CHERNÉL 1901). Records have proliferated since, so that i Tájékozta.
