SPEAKERS

Frank Todd, (Keynote) Antarctic Researcher, Author and Executive Director, Ecocepts 

"Aviculture - Is it Worth all the Trauma?"

Mark Griffin, Ph.D., Chief Nutritionist, Mazuri Division of Purina Mills  

"Diet Development For the Nutritional Requirements of Captive Exotic Birds"   

Kristine Kuchinski, DVM, Ph.D., Veterinarian and Nutritionist  

"Avian Pediatrics and Nursery Management"

Judy St. Leger, DVM, Veterinary Pathologist, Sea World of San Diego 

"Diseases of Toucans"

Pat Whitman, Animal Care Manager, Avian Propagation Center , San Diego Zoo 

"Hand Rearing Coraciformes: Hornbills and Related Birds"

Genny Wall, Esq., Attorney At Law, California 

"Animal Rights Legislation And Its Impact on Bird Breeders:  The AWA and PAWS"

David Orndorff, Animal Care Manager, Bird Department, San Diego Zoo 

"Captive Husbandry of Garrulax and Ptilinopus Species of Laughing Thrushes  in Mixed Species Aviaries"

Kelly Tucker, Owner, Tucker Farms, an exotic private breeding facility 

"Raising Cockatoos: How To Raise Well Adjusted, Independent Birds To Be Good Pets"

Allison Beutel, Team Area Lead, Avian Propagation Center , San Diego Zoo 

"Observations on Breeding and Hand-Rearing Cuckoos at the Zoological Society of San Diego"

Allison Beutel, Team Area Lead, Avian Propagation Center , San Diego Zoo 

"The Role of Red-browed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana) in the Coxen's Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni) Recovery" 

Natasha Schischakin, President, Rara Avis Consulting, Houston , Texas

"The Avian Data Project – Cooperative Breeding and Small Population Management Programs for Private Aviculture"

Roland Cristo, Private Aviculturist

"Breeding Jays and Cissas"

Dick Schroeder, Cuttlebone Plus, San Marcos , CA  

"Managing Lories and Lorikeets in Captivity"

Laurella Desborough, Private Aviculturist, past President of AFA 

"Care and Breeding of Eclectus Parrots"

Fran Sturms (nee Gonzalez), Author, The African Gray Parrot

"Management and Breeding of the African Gray Parrot"

Alan Lieberman, Program Director, Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program
"The Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program"