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Helmut Sick. Helmut Sick (10 January 1910 – 5 March 1991) was a German - Brazilian ornithologist . 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 ...
Helmut Sick, one of the towering figures of Neotropical ornithology, affectionately called. Helmuti Sicki, or simply Sicki, by Brazilians, died in Rio de Janeiro on 5 March 1991 at age 81. About a year earlier, he had written Jtirgen Haffer and Claus K6nig (Journalfiir Ornithologie.
by Roland SEITRE. Published in Terre Sauvage, April, 1990. Professor Helmut Sick, who famously rediscovered the Lear's Macaw in the wild in 1978 was interviewed by Roland Seitre about his work and the quest for the mysterious macaw.
Apr 1, 1998 · François Vuilleumier; In Memoriam: Helmut Sick, 1910-1991, The Auk, Volume 115, Issue 2, 1 April 1998, Pages 470–472, https://doi.org/10.2307/4089206
- François Vuilleumier
- 1998
May 1, 2011 · Jan 2011. Juan F. Masello. Download Citation | The ornithological diaries of Helmut Sick (1910 -1991) | On the 10th of January 2010 Helmut Sick, the German-Brazilian explorer of neotropical...
Helmut Sick | Britannica. Contributor. LOCATION: Rio de Janeiro 20.000, Brazil. BIOGRAPHY. Naturalist, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Rio de Janeiro. Author of numerous papers on neotropical birds. Primary Contributions (1) tinamou. Tinamou, (order Tinamiformes), any of about 47 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Central and South America.
Sick was above all a field ornithologist and his more than 50 years of bird observations are consolidated on these pages. Sick was first trained as a musician, and his renditions of vocalisations were written in his own system. An old-style field man, he never, to my knowledge, carried a tape-recorder and microphone.
