Shane A. Parker, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British-Australian ornithologist and museum coordinator
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About Shane A. Parker
- Shane Alwyne Parker (3 August 1943 – 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.
- He died of lymphoma at his home in Adelaide after a two-year illness.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).
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