Shane A. Parker

Who was Shane A. Parker?

Shane A. Parker was a British-born museum curator and ornithologist, who emigrated to Australia in 1967 after participating in the second Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expedition in 1964. He worked as a curator at the South Australian Museum 1976-1992.

Parker described Cox's Sandpiper as a species new to science in 1982; this wader was later revealed to be a hybrid. He also named the extinct Kangaroo Island Emu in 1984 on the basis of subfossil bones. He was the senior author of the first two parts of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of South Australia, Part 1: Emus to Spoonbills, and Part 2A: Waterfowl.