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• Control of Infectious Diseases in Captive Parrots
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• Feather Damaging Behavior - It's More than
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Dann Dunst
• Galliformes
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• The Help at Hand: The Natural Science of Behavior
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• Young Today, Retired Tomorrow - Preparing the Next Generation
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• What Now For The Spix's Macaw?
• The Conservation Of Endangered Parrots In Colombia
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Grenville Roles
Curator of Birds - Disney's Animal Kingdom
• The value of Diversity in a Zoological Avian collection
Fred Smith
AFA Florida and Puerto Rico Regional Director • AFA Disaster Relief
Caroline Stahala
Sponsored by Parrots International
• The Bahama Parrot - Practical Conservation Measures
Mark Stafford
• Amore and Saving the Baby Blues - A Multimedia Presentation of Parrots in the Wild
Darrel Styles, DVM
• Infections & Metabolic Diseases of Softbilled Birds
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Roger Sweeney
Director of Animal Division, Parrot Jungle
• Pionus Parrots
• Keeping Parrots on Public Display
Richard Switzer
• Craters, Creepers & Crows: Conserving the Avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands through Captive Propagation
Jamie Whitaker
• The Life and Times of the Companion Parrot
Heather Wilson, DVM
University of Georgia
Sponsored by the Georgia Cage Bird Society
• Controlling Reproductive Behavior in the Companion Parrot
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