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The Complete
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Color
Mutations
Volume 1
Guide
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Color
Mutations
Volume 1
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Linda S. Rubin
Linda S. Rubin
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The ORIGINAL 15 chaper text ...
Always having a fascination with genetic color
breeding, Linda had few resources to turn to in
order to learn this baffling science, so she began
her own journey of discovery to learn, share, and
teach others the methods she found that best
suited aviculturists and hobbyists in this
fascinating pursuit. Beginning at the age of 12, she
started off reading the chapters on genetics in
"Budgerigar Handbook," leading to biology and
related courses at Boston University and the
establishment of Tangowood Aviary in 1975. She
began a collection of about 200 breeding birds,
primarily ABS budgerigars and ACS cockatiels to
begin her color quest journey, producing hundreds
of the multiple varieties of combined color
mutations in budgies every year - Opalines, Selfs,
Cinnamons, Greywings, Clearwings, Violets,
Greys, Inos, Yellowface series, White Blue
Suffusions (Dilutes), dark factors, four forms of
Pieds (Australian Dominant, Australian Banded,
Recessive, and Dutch Continental Clearflights),
among many others, including resurrecting the
English Recessive Grey (bred from recessive
blues) thought to have died out during World War II.
She concurrently began breeding cockatiels,
remembering well the excitement when the first
Pearls and Cinnamons entered the USA and the
Whiteface not long after. As these colors
revitalized cockatiel genetics, she documented
their history and was invited to begin her column in
American Cage Bird Magazine, which led to the
publication of her first softbound work, The
Complete Guide to Cockatiel Color Mutations at the
suggestion of ACBM Editor Arthur Freud, due to the
amount of mail received for her column. She
presented the first documentation on cockatiel
color mutation history at the 1982 national
convention of the American Federation of
Aviculture in Washington D.C., one of many that
she would eventually continue to present at,
including - years later - the first international (1997)
cockatiel conference as keynote speaker in
Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia, and as overseas
speaker in Melbourne for ASA. Her "Journey into
the Rainbow," literally became her column heading
during her ten-year stint as NCS Genetics
Consultant for the NCS Journal. She received so
many genetics questions to answer that she
established the COCKATIEL GENETICS
WORKSHOPTM for private meetings and events
before going on to author the renown workbook,
COCKATIEL GENETICS MADE EASY, based upon
the Workshop for those who could not attend.
Linda was soon contacted by British Editor Brian
Byles of Cage & Aviary Birds magazine in the UK
and invited to begin her cockatiel genetics column
in 1990, starting her overseas writing career. She
has since expanded to many other magazines and
written several books, some of which are now
available as digital books. She continues to give
back to aviculture by writing for numerous
publications - including writing online as a Bird
Breeder Expert for Bird Talk's website,
BirdChannel.com - working as a consultant, and
serving in many national organizations from 1980
to the present. Currently, Linda is the founding
president of the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc.,
specialty organization vice president of the
American Federation of Aviculture, Inc., and a
certified panel judge for the Cockatiel Foundation,
and the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors.
breeding, Linda had few resources to turn to in
order to learn this baffling science, so she began
her own journey of discovery to learn, share, and
teach others the methods she found that best
suited aviculturists and hobbyists in this
fascinating pursuit. Beginning at the age of 12, she
started off reading the chapters on genetics in
"Budgerigar Handbook," leading to biology and
related courses at Boston University and the
establishment of Tangowood Aviary in 1975. She
began a collection of about 200 breeding birds,
primarily ABS budgerigars and ACS cockatiels to
begin her color quest journey, producing hundreds
of the multiple varieties of combined color
mutations in budgies every year - Opalines, Selfs,
Cinnamons, Greywings, Clearwings, Violets,
Greys, Inos, Yellowface series, White Blue
Suffusions (Dilutes), dark factors, four forms of
Pieds (Australian Dominant, Australian Banded,
Recessive, and Dutch Continental Clearflights),
among many others, including resurrecting the
English Recessive Grey (bred from recessive
blues) thought to have died out during World War II.
She concurrently began breeding cockatiels,
remembering well the excitement when the first
Pearls and Cinnamons entered the USA and the
Whiteface not long after. As these colors
revitalized cockatiel genetics, she documented
their history and was invited to begin her column in
American Cage Bird Magazine, which led to the
publication of her first softbound work, The
Complete Guide to Cockatiel Color Mutations at the
suggestion of ACBM Editor Arthur Freud, due to the
amount of mail received for her column. She
presented the first documentation on cockatiel
color mutation history at the 1982 national
convention of the American Federation of
Aviculture in Washington D.C., one of many that
she would eventually continue to present at,
including - years later - the first international (1997)
cockatiel conference as keynote speaker in
Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia, and as overseas
speaker in Melbourne for ASA. Her "Journey into
the Rainbow," literally became her column heading
during her ten-year stint as NCS Genetics
Consultant for the NCS Journal. She received so
many genetics questions to answer that she
established the COCKATIEL GENETICS
WORKSHOPTM for private meetings and events
before going on to author the renown workbook,
COCKATIEL GENETICS MADE EASY, based upon
the Workshop for those who could not attend.
Linda was soon contacted by British Editor Brian
Byles of Cage & Aviary Birds magazine in the UK
and invited to begin her cockatiel genetics column
in 1990, starting her overseas writing career. She
has since expanded to many other magazines and
written several books, some of which are now
available as digital books. She continues to give
back to aviculture by writing for numerous
publications - including writing online as a Bird
Breeder Expert for Bird Talk's website,
BirdChannel.com - working as a consultant, and
serving in many national organizations from 1980
to the present. Currently, Linda is the founding
president of the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc.,
specialty organization vice president of the
American Federation of Aviculture, Inc., and a
certified panel judge for the Cockatiel Foundation,
and the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors.
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