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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-04-19 human Rosanne Walker updated 2019-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003185b.htm person Parker Shane AACR2 1943 21 November 1992 Museum curator Ornithologist 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. 1964 1964 Career position - Visited Australia with the Second Harold Hall Australian Expedition from the British Museum (Natural History) 1967 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 1975 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), 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

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 'Parker, Shane', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Parker, Shane Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Samuel White's Ornithological Explorations in Northern South Australia in 1863 Parker, S. A. Samuel White's Ornithological Explorations in Northern South Australia in 1863 1980 South Australian Ornithologist 28 5 113-119 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001