Helmut Sick

{{Short description|German-Brazilian ornithologist}} {{Multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=December 2019}} {{No footnotes|date=January 2025}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|date=January 2025}} }} '''Helmut Sick''' (10 January 1910 – 5 March 1991) was a German-Brazilian ornithologist. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Author Search Results |url=https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Author/Home?author=Sick,%20Helmut,%201910- |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=catalog.freelibrary.org |language=en}}</ref>

Sick was born in Leipzig, Germany. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939.

A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, 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.

== References == {{Reflist}} *{{cite journal| last=Vuilleumier | first=François |journal=The Auk|volume=115|issue=2|pages=470–472|url=http://sora.unm.edu/node/25932|title=In Memoriam: Helmut Sick|doi=10.2307/4089206|year=1998| jstor=4089206 |url-access=subscription}} {{Authority control}}

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