Parker, Shane (1943 - 1992)

Summary

Shane Parker worked as a curator at the South Australian Museum 1976-1992. His particular interests were avian distribution and taxonomy, and he wrote several important papers on grass wrens. His publications included an announcement of two forms of the Wedgebill (Chirruping and Chiming) and a paper on the distribution and taxonomy of birds in south-west Queensland (both with Julian Ford, q.v.), and the first two parts of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of South Australia. After a dispute about the hybrid sandpiper ('Cox's Sandpiper'), he moved his research interests away from ornithology to lower marine invertebrates.

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Chronology

1964

Career position - Visited Australia with the Second Harold Hall Australian Expedition from the British Museum (Natural History)

1967

Life event - Migrated to Australia

1967 - 1970

Career position - Worked at the Arid Zone Research Institute in Alice Springs

1971 - 1975

Education - Undertook secondary and tertiary education in Adelaide

1975

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide

1976 - 1985

Career position - Curator of Birds at the South Australian Museum

1986 - 1991

Career position - Curator in Ornithology (50%) and Curator of Lower Marine Invertebrates (50%)

1991 - 1992

Career position - Curator of Lower Marine Invertebrates

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Parker, S. A., 'Samuel White's Ornithological Explorations in Northern South Australia in 1863', South Australian Ornithologist, 28 (5) (1980), 113-119. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4356228. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93199167. Details
• 'Parker, S A (1943-19921121)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-559694. Details

See also

• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details