Karel Hendrik Voous (23 June 1920,

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– 31 January 2002, Huizen) was a Dutch

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

and author. He was Secretary-General (1966–1970) and Honorary President (1990–1994) of the International Ornithological Committee.

Bibliography

Books in English

*''On the history of the distribution of the genus Dendrocopos'' (1947) *''Birds observed and collected during the whaling expeditions of the "Willem Barendsz" in the Antarctic, 1946–1947 and 1947–1948'' (1950) *''Owls of the Northern Hemisphere'' *''

List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species ''List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species'' is a 1977 book by Karel H. Voous, published by the British Ornithologists' Union. It contains a list of 1,921 bird species recorded from the Holarctic zoogeographic region. It was widely adopted by orni ...

Contributions

*'' The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds'',

T & A D Poyser T. & A. D. Poyser began as a British publisher, founded by Trevor and Anna Poyser in 1973, to specialise in ornithology books. It was located in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and later in Calton, Staffordshire. T. & A. D. Poyser often worked in co ...

, 1997 (

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)

Books in Dutch

*''Afwijkende populatie koolmezen'' *''Phylloscopus Bonelli Bonelli in Nederland Gevangen'' *''Roofvogels en Uilen van Europa''

References

* 1920 births 2002 deaths Dutch ornithologists People from Huizen 20th-century Dutch zoologists {{netherlands-scientist-stub