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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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