Karel Voous
Encyclopedia
Karel Hendrik Voous PhD, MA (June 23, 1920, Huizen
– January 31, 2002, Huizen) was a Dutch
ornithologist and author
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He was Secretary-General (1966–1970) and Honorary President (1990–1994) of the International Ornithological Committee
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Huizen
Huizen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses in the region appeared here.-History:...
– January 31, 2002, Huizen) was a Dutch
Netherlands
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ornithologist and author
Author
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He was Secretary-General (1966–1970) and Honorary President (1990–1994) of the International Ornithological Committee
International Ornithological Committee
The International Ornithological Committee is a group of about 200 international ornithologists, and is responsible for the International Ornithological Congress and other international ornithological activities, undertaken by its Standing Committees....
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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
Contributions
- The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding BirdsThe EBCC Atlas of European Breeding BirdsThe EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds - their distribution and abundance is an ornithological atlas published for the European Bird Census Council by T & A D Poyser in 1997. Its editors were Ward J. M. Hagemeijer and Michael J. Blair. The atlas was the first to present grid-square distribution...
, T & A D Poyser, 1997 ISBN 0-85661-091-7 (forewordForewordA foreword is a piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book's primary author or the story the book tells...
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Books in Dutch
- Afwijkende populatie koolmezen
- Phylloscopus Bonelli Bonelli in Nederland Gevangen
- Roofvogels en Uilen van Europa