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Parker, Shane (1943 - 1992)
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Museum curator and Ornithologist
Born: 1943.  Died: 21 November 1992.
Shane Parker worked as a curator at the South Australian Museum 1976-92. 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.
Career Highlights

Chronology
1964Visited Australia with the Second Harold Hall Australian Expedition from the British Museum (Natural History)
1967Migrated to Australia
1967 - 1970Worked at the Arid Zone Research Institute in Alice Springs
1971 - 1975Undertook secondary and tertiary education in Adelaide
1975Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide
1976 - 1985Curator of Birds at the South Australian Museum
1986 - 1991Curator in Ornithology (50%) and Curator of Lower Marine Invertebrates (50%)
1991 - 1992Curator of Lower Marine Invertebrates

 
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