Cockatiel Foundation, Inc.
Linda S. Rubin, Massachusetts
Cockatiel Foundation founding president, Linda S. Rubin, is a writer, editor, speaker and avian educator of 30
years and author of the books,
Multiple Bird Households, Ultimate Parrot Guide  and Cockatiel Genetics
Made Easy
. She is the Cockatiel Expert columnist for Bird Talk’s website, BirdChannel.com, and is an overseas
columnist for the UK's
Cage & Aviary Birds magazine. She has more than 200 articles published with an
international byline and penned cockatiel columns for
Cage & Aviary Birds (UK), Bird Times, Pet Bird Hobbyist,
UK Birdkeeper, ACBM,
and AFA Watchbird, among others. She worked as senior editor for Cockatiel & Parakeet
World
magazine and her features have appeared in Australia's Talking Birds, Parrots (UK), Bird Talk, Birds
USA, Critters USA, American Family & Pet Expo, Popular Cockatiels
(BowTie Press) and in over a dozen
international journals. She is a recipient of an AFA Silver AVY Award - the highest awards in US aviculture - for
her writing in
AFA Watchbird, from the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc.  

Linda currently serves on the board of directors of the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc. as Specialty
Organization Vice President, public relations chair, and AVY awards chair, and is proud to be an AFA Delegate
for the Foundaton. She is a certified avian specialist with PIJAC, served as an NCS panel judge for 23 years, a
former NAPS judge, and continues as a certified panel judge with the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors,
and the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc. judging shows across the US, Canada and Puerto Rico since 1984. Linda is the
facilitator of the first Cockatiel Genetics Workshops (TM) in the United States during the 1980's, and has been a
presenter at 12 national AFA conventions, including speaking on a legislative panel at the 2007 House of
Delegates meeting. She has presented at numerous confereneces and private meetings since 1977, including the
Canadian Parrot Symposium, and as Keynote Speaker at the First International Cockatiel Symposium in
Brisbane for the Australian National Cockatiel Society, and in Sydney for the Native Cockatiel Society of
Australia, and as overseas speaker in Melbourne for the Avicultural Society of Australia.
For further information, see her card about Aves Communications & Promotions.  
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