In 1981, he published a report about the ornithological work of Dutch naturalist Max Bartels (1871-1936) and his sons in present-day Indonesia.
[3] 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.
[5] During a field trip to Bacan in the Maluku Islands in 1985 the Rozendaals discovered the cicada species Diceropyga bacanensis which was described by J. P. Duffels in 1988.
[8] In 1990, he wrote an article on the vocalisations and the taxonomy of the Sulawesi nightjar (Caprimulgus celebensis)[9] In 1993, he described the blue-rumped pitta subspecies Pitta soror flynnstonei[10] which was named for Time photographer Sean Flynn and cameraman Dana Stone who were both presumed killed during the Khmer Rouge terror in Cambodia in the early 1970s and whose graves were discovered in 1991.
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.