Marsigli madártani munkájának jelentősége a magyar ornitológia történetében

The paper analyses the ornithological material of L. F. Marsigli’s Danubius Pannonico-mysicus, Volume V, based on the original engravings and the Hungarian translation by Szabolcs Hursán, which is currently being published. Based on the current knowledge of the Hungarian and Carpathian Basin bird life, it compares and analyses the species in Marsigli’s work, revealing the similarities between the drawings and the textual descriptions and the contradictions that sometimes appear. The paper also uses a similar methodology to examine the chapter on bird nests and eggs in the volume. Finally, the species of birds listed and precisely identified by Marsigli are projected into the modern system of domestic bird species, producing a list of species described by Marsigli that can also be considered authoritative today. KEYWORDS: Baroque period, Danube, fauna history, avifauna, nidobiology