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Linda S. Rubin

The Information Source for Cockatiel
Genetics & Color Mutations

Linda S. Rubin is an author, speaker, industry consultant and avian educator with an
international byline and 30 years experience keeping and breeding cockatiels, budgerigars, 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 mutation genetics. She is the author of the
books Ultimate Parrot Guide, and Multiple Bird Households, both of which have earned the
distinction of receiving 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. She has self-published several other works available on this site and
completed a manuscript on an encyclopedia for her next book.

Linda writes as a Bird Breeder Expert columnist for BIRD TALK'S website, BIRDCHANNEL.COM
and is a USA columnist for CAGE & AVIARY BIRDS in the United Kingdom. With more than 250
articles published, her writing background includes working for Seacoast Publishing as senior
editor and feature writer for COCKATIEL & PARAKEET WORLD magazine, and penning columns
for CAGE & AVIARY BIRDS (UK), BIRD TIMES, CAGE BIRD HOBBYIST, UK BIRDKEEPER, ACBM,,
and the AFA WATCHBIRD. Over the past two decades her features have appeared in a number
of publications including BowTie, Inc.'s magabook (magazine-book) POPULAR BIRDS:
COCKATIELS, as well as BIRD TALK, BIRDS USA, CRITTERS USA, JUST PARROTS, trade
publications, and in over a dozen international journals including the Australian National
Cockatiel Society, Native Cockatiel Society of Australia, and the Avicultural Society of Australia,
Inc. Linda is a recipient of the coveted WATCHBIRD Silver AVY Award for her writing in AFA
Watchbird from the American Federation of Aviculture - the AVY's being considered the highest
awards in US aviculture. Linda runs Aves Communications & Promotions offering her books
and services that includes avicultural writing, editing, and avian consultations. She has
presented on a range of topics to meetings around the USA since 1978, and at national and
international conferences since1982.

With more than thirty years dedication to national organizations, Linda is founding president of
Cockatiel Foundation, Inc. - webmaster, genetics consultant, and oversight for their journal
publication. She serves as the specialty organization vice president, public relations chair, and
AVY awards chair for the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc., a certified avian specialist with
the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, and a certified panel judge for several national
organizations judging bird shows across the USA, Canada, and Puerto Rico since 1984. Linda is
the facilitator of the original Cockatiel Genetics Workshops (TM) in the United States and a
presenter at over a dozen national AFA conventions, the Canadian Parrot Symposium, and
numerous conferences and private meetings - including Keynote Speaker at the First
International Cockatiel Symposium hosted by the Australian National Cockatiel Society and the
Native Cockatiel Society of Australia in Brisbane and Sydney, and as overseas speaker at the
Avicultural Society of Australia in Melbourne, Australia. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and
meeting other aviculturists through visits at conventions, meetings, and shows.