Speaker Bio for
LINDA S. RUBIN
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Copyright 2006 Linda S. Rubin and Aves Communications & Promotions
| Professional Member of The Author's Guild & the International Women's Writing Guild |
Linda S. Rubin is a book author, editor, speaker, and avian educator with an international byline and 30 years experience keeping and breeding cockatiels 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 genetics. Linda has authored several books on aviculture, including Ultimate Parrot Guide and Multiple Bird Households, which earned 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. With more than 200 articles published, Linda has penned columns for Cage & Aviary Birds (UK), Bird Times, Cage Bird Hobbyist, UK Birdkeeper, American Cage Bird Magazine and the AFA Watchbird; she also worked as senior editor for Cockatiel & Parakeet World. Her features have appeared in Bird Talk, Birds USA, Critters USA, Popular Cockatiels, trade publications including American Family & Pet Expo - and in over a dozen international journals around the world including the Australian National Cockatiel Society, Native Cockatiel Society of Australia, and Avicultural Society of Australia, Inc . Linda is a recipient of the coveted WATCHBIRD Silver AVY Award for her writing in AFA Watchbird by the American Federation of Avicutlure, Inc. (AFA). She currently writes as a bird expert columnist for Bird Talk's website, BirdChannel.com and as a companion bird columnist for Australia's Talking Birds. Linda is the founding president of the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc. - also serving as their genetics consultant and webmaster - and serves on the board of directors of the American Federation of Avicutlure, Inc. as Northeastern director, public relations chair and AVY awards chair. She is a certified avian specialist with the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council since 1992, served as an NCS panel judge for 23 years, and qualified as a certified panel judge for the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors, the North American Parrot Society and the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc. - judging bird shows across the US, Canada and Puerto Rico since 1984. She is the facilitator of the first Cockatiel Genetics Workshops (TM) in the United States, and has been a presenter at 12 national AFA conferences, the Canadian Parrot Symposium, Bird Clubs of Virginia conventions, and numerous private conventions and meetings since 1977 - including Keynote Speaker at the First International Cockatiel Symposium in Brisbane and Sydney, and in Melbourne for the Avcultural Society of Australia. |
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