Helmut Sick (10 January 1910 – 5 March 1991) was a
German
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Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
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ornithologist
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Sick was born in Leipzig, Germany. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939.
A prominent ornithologist in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work: ''Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introdução'' (1984), later translated into English as ''Birds in Brazil: A Natural History'' (1993). He also led scientific expeditions in remote areas in Brazil and described several species of birds, including the
Brasília tapaculo,
long-tailed cinclodes,
Stresemann's bristlefront and
golden-crowned manakin
The golden-crowned manakin (''Lepidothrix vilasboasi'') is a small species of perching bird in the manakin family (Pipridae). It is endemic to the south-central Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, and it is threatened by habitat loss.
Discovery and re ...
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Brazilian ornithologists
1910 births
1991 deaths
German emigrants to Brazil
Expatriate academics in Brazil
20th-century German zoologists
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