Person
Parker, Shane (1943 - 1992)
- Born
- 1943
- Died
- 21 November 1992
- Occupation
- Museum curator and Ornithologist
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), 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
Rosanne Walker
Created: 19 April 2001, Last modified: 9 August 2012
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