Shane Alwyne Parker (3 August 1943 – 21 November 1992) 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.
[1] He died of lymphoma at his home in Adelaide after a two-year illness.
[2] 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 (Dromaius baudinianus) in 1984 on the basis of subfossil bones.
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