AFA 12th Annual Convention Schedule

Abstract

THURSDAY, August 7, 1986

TIME    ACTIVITY      SPEAKER

8:00 a.m. Keynote Address - The Future of American Aviculture   Jerry Jennings, AFA President 1985-1986

9:00 a.m. Hyacinthine Macaw: Habitat and State Paul Roth - Brazil, Universidade, Federal da Maranhao

10:00 a.m. Birds of Peru John O'Neil - Louisiana Museum of Natural Science

11:00 a.m. Softbills Lindsay Clack, Ph.D. - Pennsylvania.

Conservatory - Aviary

1:00 p.m. West Australian Cockatoos N.D. Cooper - United Kingdom The Parrot Society

2:00 p.m. Cranes Lisa Hartman - Wisconsin International Crane Foundation

3:00 p.m. Handfeeding Baby Hookbills & Parrots - Jo Hall - Texas Lovebirds to Cockatoos

4:00 p.m. Breeding of the Common Trumpeter Walter English - Washington

Woodland Park Zoological Gardens

4:00 p.m. Parrot Husbandry and Housing in Cold Weather Areas Bill De La Mare - Washington

Specialty Meetings

TIME ACTIVITY

5:00 p.m. Meeting of the Asian Parakeet Society

5:30 p.m. Meeting of the Forpus Society

6:00 p.m. Meeting of the Cockatoo Society

6:30 p.m. Meeting of the National Finch Society

7:00 p.m. Meeting of the American Cockatiel Society

8:00 p.m. Meeting of the African Lovebird Society

9:00 p.m. Meeting of the Macaw Society

FRIDAY, August 8, 1986

TIME ACTIVITY SPEAKER

8:00 a.m. Identification and Breeding of the Pyrrhura Conures Denna Ferris - California

9:00 a.m. Status of Aviculture in the United Kingdom and the Parrot Society N.B. Cooper - United Kingdom The Parrot Society

10:00 a.m. The Challenge Involved in Running "Loro Perque" Wolfgang Kiessling - Canary Islands Loro Perque

11:00 a.m. Keeping and Breeding of Waxbills Theo Pagel - West Germany

2:00 p.m. Habitat and State in Sympatric Parrots in Southern Amazonia Paul Roth - Brazil

Universidade Federal da Maranhao

3:00 p.m. Softbills Clive Roots - Canada Assiniboine Park Zoo

4:00 p.m. Budgerigars Robert Travnicek, M.D.

ABFP - Nebraska

4:00 p.m. Correlation of Weather Changes and Egg Production in Ken Takeshita, D.V.M., M.S.

Large Parrots Aviculture Institute

 

 

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