Shane A. Parker

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Shane A. Parker (b. 1943, d. Adelaide 21 November 1992) was a British-born museum curator and ornithologist, who emigrated to Australia in 1967 after participating in the second Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expedition in 1964. He worked as a curator at the South Australian Museum 1976-1992.^[1]

Parker described Cox's Sandpiper as a species new to science in 1982; this wader was later revealed to be a hybrid. He also named the extinct Kangaroo Island Emu (Dromaius baudinianus) in 1984 on the basis of subfossil bones. He was the senior author of the first two parts (all that were published) of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of South Australia, Part 1: Emus to Spoonbills (1979), and Part 2A: Waterfowl (1985).

References

↑ http://www.birdssa.asn.au/SAOpdf/Volume%2031/1993V31P148.pdf

Joseph, Leo. (1993). Obituary. Shane A. Parker 1943-1992. Emu 93: 297-298.
Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3

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Name	Parker, Shane
Alternative names
Short description	British-Australian ornithologist and museum coordinator
Date of birth	1943
Place of birth
Date of death	21 November 1992
Place of death

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