Karel Hendrik Voous (23 June 1920,

Huizen Huizen () is a municipality and a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses in the region, instead of the more commo ...

– 31 January 2002, Huizen) was a Dutch

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

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

International Ornithological Committee The International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) is an international organization for the promotion of ornithology. It links basic and applied research and nurtures education and outreach activities. Specifically, the IOU organizes and funds global co ...

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 A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

Contributions

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The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds ''The 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. Bla ...

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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 ...

, 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