Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 5() 1960
Ptaki Pienin
[The Birds of the Pieniny Mts.]
Abstract:
The present study on the Pieniny avifauna is an effect of three years’ field work, which the author carried out in the years 1957-1959 as his contribution to the collective investigations into the Pieniny fauna performed by the Cracow Department of the Zoological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He took also into consideration his fragmentary observations made in the years 1952-1956 and the data from earlier works (Sitowski, 1916, 1931, 1946) as well as those reported on the occasion of the discussing of the Tatra avifauna (Wodzicki, 1851; Kocyan, 1884). The natural boundaries assumed for the area of investigation are the Dunajec River between Czorsztyn and Krościenko on the south and on the east, the Krośnica Brook on the north and the Kluszkowianka Brook on the west. On the right side of the Dunajec the observations were made only at Niedzica on the hill with a ruined castle (cf. the map — Fig. 1). The total number of species reported from the Pieniny Mts. amounts to 161, of which 92 nest here for certain and in the case of other four species nesting is very probable.
