Frank Gerard Rozendaal (9 May 1957 – 3 December 2013) was a Dutch ornithologist who in particular did research on the

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

n avifauna. He also contributed to the taxonomy of

bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most bi ...

s. After field trips in Europe and the Near East he conducted expeditions to South, Southeast and East Asia from 1979 to 1991 where he discovered several new bird, bat and insect taxa.

Career

Rozendaal was born in

Bloemendaal Bloemendaal () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Bloemendaal is, together with Wassenaar, the wealthiest place in the Netherlands. In October 2015, after persistent problems with the local governa ...

, Netherlands in 1957. In 1979, he was among the co-founders of the Dutch Birding Association which is publishing the journal

Dutch Birding ''Dutch Birding'', originally subtitled ''Journal of the Dutch Birding Association'', and currently subtitled ''International journal on Palaearctic birds'', is an ornithological magazine published by the Amsterdam-based Dutch Birding Association ...

.Arnoud B van den Berg:
Frank Rozendaal (1957-2013)
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He also created the logo of Dutch Birding, which shows a juvenile

Ross's gull Ross's gull (''Rhodostethia rosea'') is a small gull, the only species in its genus, although it has been suggested it should be moved to the genus '' Hydrocoloeus'', which otherwise only includes the little gull. This bird is named after the Br ...

(''Rhodostethia rosea''). Rozendaal led the authoritative section on Asian-Pacific birds in this journal until 1994. In 1981, he published a report about the ornithological work of Dutch naturalist Max Bartels (1871-1936) and his sons in present-day Indonesia. In the same year, he wrote a paper about the ornithological work of

Andries Hoogerwerf Andries Hoogerwerf (29 August 1906 – 5 February 1977) was a Dutch track and field athlete, naturalist, ornithologist and conservationist, who spent much of his working life in the Dutch East Indies and Dutch New Guinea. Hoogerwerf's athletic ...

(1906-1977). In 1984, he described the Halmahera blossom bat (''Syconycteris carolinae'') which he named for his wife Caroline Rozendaal-Kortekaas who is a biologist and supported her husband on his field work. In the same year he graduated in biology at the

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...

and the

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

. In 1985, he discovered the

cinnabar boobook The cinnabar boobook (''Ninox ios''), also known as the cinnabar hawk-owl, is a hawk-owl endemic to the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was described as a new species to science by American ornithologist Pamela C. Rasmussen in 1999 based on ...

(''Ninox ios'') which was described by

Pamela C. Rasmussen Pamela Cecile Rasmussen (born October 16, 1959) is an American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University. She ...

in 1999. During a field trip to

Bacan The Bacan Islands, formerly also known as the Bachans, Bachians, and Batchians, are a group of islands in the Moluccas in Indonesia. They are mountainous and forested, lying south of Ternate and southwest of Halmahera. The islands are administe ...

in the

Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located eas ...

in 1985 the Rozendaals discovered the

cicada The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...

species '' Diceropyga bacanensis'' which was described by J. P. Duffels in 1988. In the same year they discovered the

dragonfly A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...

'' Celebophlebia carolinae'' on

Sangir Island Sangir Besar, commonly called Sangir Island (with the spelling variants "Sangihe", "Sanghir" or "Sangi"), is an island in the Sangir Islands group. Its Indonesian name literally means "Great Sangir", in reference to the fact that it is the archip ...

. Along with Frank R. Lambert Rozendaal made surveys for the long lost

Sangihe whistler The Sangihe whistler or Sangihe shrikethrush (''Coracornis sanghirensis'') is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is endemic to Sangihe Island in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It ...

(''Coracornis sanghirensis'') and the

cerulean flycatcher The cerulean flycatcher (''Eutrichomyias rowleyi'') is a medium-sized (up to 18 cm long), blue passerine with bright cerulean blue plumage, a bare white orbital ring, dark brown iris, bluish black bill and pale blue-grey below. The young ha ...

(''Eutrichomyias rowleyi'') on the Sangihe Islands between May and June 1985 but failed to find them. Both species were officially rediscovered in 1995 and 1998 respectively. In 1987, he described the Tanimbar bush warbler (''Cettia carolinae'') which is also named for his wife. In 1990, he wrote an article on the vocalisations and the taxonomy of the Sulawesi nightjar (''Caprimulgus celebensis'') In 1993, he described the blue-rumped pitta subspecies ''Pitta soror flynnstonei'' which was named for

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photographer Sean Flynn and cameraman

Dana Stone Dana Hazen Stone (April 18, 1939; disappeared April 6, 1970) was an American photojournalist who worked for CBS, United Press International, and Associated Press during the Vietnam War. Biography Stone first traveled to Vietnam in 1965. Befo ...

who were both presumed killed during the

Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...

terror in Cambodia in the early 1970s and whose graves were discovered in 1991. In 2000, he described the

Taiwan bush warbler The Taiwan bush warbler (''Locustella alishanensis'') is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. It is found only in Taiwan. Its natural habitat is undergrowth and grassland in elevation. It was first recorded in 1917 and nam ...

(''Locustella alishanensis'') (in collaboration with Rasmussen). Along with

George Sangster George Sangster is a Dutch ornithologist. He specialises in taxonomy and has written many articles on this subject for the magazines Dutch Birding ''Dutch Birding'', originally subtitled ''Journal of the Dutch Birding Association'', and curren ...

he described

Mees's nightjar Mees's nightjar (''Caprimulgus meesi'') is a member of the nightjar family (Caprimulgidae) described as new to science in 2004. It is a representative of the large-tailed nightjar complex found on Flores and Sumba, Indonesia. Previously unrecogn ...

(''Caprimulgus meesi'') in 2004 which was named for

Gerlof Fokko Mees Gerlof Fokko Mees (16 June 1926 – 31 March 2013) was a Dutch ichthyologist, ornithologist and museum curator. During 1946 to 1949 he took part as a conscript in the military actions to reestablish rule in the Dutch East Indies. During that tim ...

(1926-2013). Besides his ornithological interests, Rozendaal worked as artist and photographer in particular on

aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines ...

and on

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

. He died after a short illness on 3 December 2013. He is survived by his wife Caroline and his son Max. In 1984, Rozendaal was honoured in the species' epithet of the gilded tube-nosed bat (''Murina rozendaali'') by Charles M. Francis and John Edwards Hill.Francis, C. M. & J. E. Hill (1984):
New bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and new records of bats from Borneo and Malaya
' "In" Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoological Series) 47:319

References

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