Frank Rozendaal

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Frank Gerard Rozendaal (born May 9, 1957 in Bloemendaal , Netherlands ; † December 3, 2013 ) was a Dutch ornithologist who mainly conducted research on the Southeast Asian avifauna. Another focus of his work was the taxonomy of bats. After excursions in Europe and the Middle East, he undertook several expeditions to South, Southeast and East Asia between 1979 and 1991, where he discovered some new bird, bat and insect taxa.

Life

In 1979 Rozendaal was one of the co-founders of the Dutch ornithological organization Dutch Birding Association, which publishes the bird journal Dutch Birding. He created the journal's logo, which shows a juvenile rose gull ( Rhodostethia rosea ) and was responsible for the Asia-Pacific avifauna section until 1994.

In 1981 he published a report on the ornithological work of the Dutch naturalist Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels (1871-1939) and his sons in the Dutch East Indies and what is now Indonesia . In the same year he wrote a treatise on the ornithological work of Andries Hoogerwerf (1906–1977). In 1984 he described the Halmahera flower bat ( Syconycteris carolinae ), which he dedicated to his wife, the biologist Caroline Rozendaal-Kortekaas. In the same year he completed his biology studies at the Universities of Utrecht and Leiden . In 1985 he discovered the cinnabar owl ( Ninox ios ) in northern Sulawesi , which was described by Pamela C. Rasmussen in 1999 . During an excursion to Bacan in the Moluccas in 1985, the Rozendaals discovered the cicada species Diceropyga bacanensis , which was described by Joannes Petrus Duffels in 1988 . In the same year they discovered the dragonfly species Celebophlebia carolinae on Sangihe Besar , which was also named after Rozendaal's wife. Together with Frank Lambert , Rozendaal undertook search expeditions between May and June 1985 for two long-lost bird species, the Sangihedickkopf ( Coracornis sanghirensis ) and the Silver Flycatcher ( Eutrichomyias rowleyi ). Rozendaal and Lambert's efforts were unsuccessful, but both species were rediscovered in 1995 and 1998, respectively. In 1987, Rozendaal published the first scientific description of the Tanimbar bush warbler ( Horornis carolinae ), which he also dedicated to his wife. In 1990 he wrote an article on the vocalizations and taxonomy of the Sulawesin night swallow ( Caprimulgus celebensis ), which was considered a subspecies of the Philippine night swallow ( Caprimulgus manillensis ) for a long time , but is currently generally recognized as a separate species. In 1993, he described the blue- rump pitta subspecies Pitta soror flynnstonei and dedicated it to the two Americans Sean Flynn and Dana Stone , a photojournalist for Time magazine and a cameraman, who wanted to cross Cambodia on a motorcycle in the early 1970s and disappeared without a trace are. Their presumed graves are said to have been discovered in 1991 and there are presumptions that they were murdered during the terrorist regime of the Khmer Rouge . In 2000 he described in collaboration with Pamela C. Rasmussen to Taiwan Buschsänger ( Locustella alishanensis ). In 2004 he and George Sangster described the Mees nightjar ( Caprimulgus meesi ), which he named after the Dutch ornithologist and ichthyologist Gerlof Fokko Mees (1926-2013) from the Naturalis Museum in Leiden .

In addition to his ornithological interests, Rozendaal worked as a photographer who mainly photographed field hockey games but also airplanes. He died after a brief illness on December 3, 2013.

Dedication names

In 1984 Charles M. Francis and John Edwards Hill (1928-1997) named the golden tube-nosed bat ( Murina rozendaali ) in honor of Rozendaal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Arnoud B van den Berg: Frank Rozendaal (1957-2013) . In: Dutch Birding .
  2. ^ F. Rozendaal: De Bijdragen van MEG Bartels (1871-1936) en zijn zoons Max jr. (1902–1943), Ernst (1904–1976) en Hans (born 1906) dead de kennis van de Avifauna van de Indian archipelago: a historical-ornithological study after the execution of a family van natuuronderzoekers in Nederlandsch-Indië en Indonesië. 1981.
  3. ↑ F. Rozendaal: De bijdragen van Andries Hoogerwerf (1906–1977) dead de kennis van de avifauna van de Indian Archipelago: a historical-ornithological study after de verrichtingen van een natuuronderzoeker in Nederlandsch-Indië en Indonesië. Biohistorisch Instituut, 1981.
  4. ↑ FG Rozendaal: Notes on macroglossine bats from Sulawesi and the Moluccas, Indonesia, with the description of a new species of Syconycteris Matschie, 1899 from Halmahera (Mammalia: Megachiroptera). In: Zoologische Mededelingen. Volume 58, No. 13, 1984, pp. 187-212.
  5. ^ PC Rasmussen: A new species of hawk-owl Ninox from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. In: Wilson Bull. Vol. 111, No. 4, 1999, pp. 457-630.
  6. ↑ JP Duffels: Biogeography of the cicadas of the island of Bacan, Maluku, Indonesia, with description of Diceropyga bacanensis n. Sp. (Homoptera, Cicadidae). In: Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie. Volume 131, 1988, pp. 7-12.
  7. ^ J. van Tol: The Odonata of Sulawesi and adjacent islands. Part 1. A new species of Celebophlebia Lieftinck from Sangihe Island, with some notes on the taxonomic status of the genus. In: Zoologische Mededelingen. Volume 61, No. 13, 1987, pp. 155-160, figs. 1-13.
  8. ^ FG Rozendaal: Description of a new species of Bush Warbler of the genus Cettia Bonaparte, 1834 (Aves: Sylviidae) from Yamdena, Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia. In: Zool. Med. Volume 61, January 1987, pp. 177-202.
  9. ↑ Vocalixations and taxonomic statusofCaprfmulguscelebeRsis. In: Dutch Birding. Vol. 12, No. 2, 1990, pp. 79-81. (dutchbirding.nl)
  10. ^ Asian-Pacific birds. In: Dutch Birding. Volume 15, No. 1, 1993, pp. 17-22. (dutchbirding.nl)
  11. ↑ G. Sangster, F. Rozendaal: Territorial songs and species-level taxonomy of nightjars of the Caprimulgus macrurus complex, with the description of a new species. In: Zoologische Verhandelingen. (Leiden) Vol. 350, 2004, pp. 7–45 (PDF)
  12. ^ CM Francis, JE Hill: New bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and new records of bats from Borneo and Malaya . In: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoological Series). Volume 47, 1984, p. 319.
personal data
SURNAME Rozendaal, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rozendaal, Frank Gerard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch ornithologist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloemendaal , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2013