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About Linda S. Rubin
| Linda S. Rubin is an author, editor, speaker, and avian educator with an international byline and 30 years experience keeping and breeding cockatiels, budgerigars, and parrots. An avid enthusiast in the study of color mutations, she is widely recognized as a leading authority in the United States on cockatiel mutation genetics. She is the author of the books Ultimate Parrot Guide, and Multiple Bird Households, both of which have earned the distinction of receiving the ASPCA Seal of Approval. Her popular self-published volume, Cockatiel Genetics Made Easy, has sold to aviculturists, hobbyists, and zoos around the world for nearly two decades. She has self-published several other works available on this site and completed a manuscript on an encyclopedia for her next book. Linda writes as a Bird Expert columnist for BIRD TALK'S website, BIRDCHANNEL.COM and is a USA columnist for CAGE & AVIARY BIRDS in the United Kingdom. With more than 250 articles published, her writing background includes working for Seacoast Publishing as senior editor and feature writer for COCKATIEL & PARAKEET WORLD magazine, and penning columns for CAGE & AVIARY BIRDS (UK), BIRD TIMES, CAGE BIRD HOBBYIST, UK BIRDKEEPER, ACBM, and the AFA WATCHBIRD. Over the past twenty years her features have appeared in many publications including BowTie, Inc.'s magabook (magazine-book) POPULAR BIRDS: COCKATIELS, as well as BIRD TALK, BIRDS USA, CRITTERS USA, JUST PARROTS, trade publications, and in over a dozen international journals including the Australian National Cockatiel Society, Native Cockatiel Society of Australia, and the Avicultural Society of Australia, Inc. Linda is a recipient of the coveted WATCHBIRD Silver AVY Award for her writing in AFA Watchbird from the American Federation of Aviculture - the AVY's being considered the highest awards in US aviculture. Linda runs Aves Communications & Promotions offering her books and services that includes avicultural writing, editing, and avian consultations. She has presented on a range of topics to meetings around the USA since 1978, and at national and international conferences since1982. With more than thirty years dedication to national organizations, Linda is founding president of Cockatiel Foundation, Inc. - their webmaster, genetics consultant, and oversight for their journal publication. She serves as the specialty organization vice president, public relations chair, and AVY Awards chair for the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc., a certified avian specialist with the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, and a certified panel judge for several national organizations judging bird shows across the USA, Canada, and Puerto Rico since 1984. Linda is the facilitator of the original Cockatiel Genetics Workshops (TM) in the United States and a presenter at over a dozen national AFA conventions, the Canadian Parrot Symposium, and numerous conferences and private meetings - including Keynote Speaker at the First International Cockatiel Symposium hosted by the Australian National Cockatiel Society and the Native Cockatiel Society of Australia in Brisbane and Sydney, and as overseas speaker at the Avicultural Society of Australia in Melbourne, Australia. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and meeting other aviculturists through visits at conventions, meetings, and shows. |
| Linda S. Rubin Author, Speaker, Avian Consultant & Educator |
Linda S. Rubin writes as a
Bird Expert on Cockatiels,
Psittaculas & Budgerigars
for BIRD TALK'S website,
BirdChannel.com.
Bird Expert on Cockatiels,
Psittaculas & Budgerigars
for BIRD TALK'S website,
BirdChannel.com.
| Certified Panel Judge: Cockatiel Foundation, Inc. Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors |
| Certified Avian Specialist: Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) |
| writing & editing pr feature writing news & press releases brochures avian consults show & breeding standards |