Shane A. Parker

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Shane Alwyne Parker (3 August 1943 – 21 November 1992) was a

Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expedition in 1964. He worked as a curator at the South Australian Museum 1976–1992.[1] He died of lymphoma at his home in Adelaide after a two-year illness.[2]

Parker described

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).

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Zeidler, W. (1993). "Obituary: Shane Alwyne Parker". Records of the South Australian Museum. 27 (1): 57–64.
  • Joseph, Leo. (1993). Obituary. Shane A. Parker 1943–1992. Emu 93: 297–298.
  • Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press.