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The Complete
Guide
to Cockatiel
Color
Mutations
Volume 1
Guide
to Cockatiel
Color
Mutations
Volume 1
by
Linda S. Rubin
Linda S. Rubin
Always having a fascination with genetic color breeding, Linda had few resources
to turn to in order to learn this baffling science, so she began her own journey of
discovery to learn, share, and teach others the methods she found that best suited
aviculturists and hobbyists in this fascinating pursuit. Beginning at the age of 12,
she started off reading the chapters on genetics in "Budgerigar Handbook," leading
to biology and related courses at Boston University and the establishment of
Tangowood Aviary in 1975. She began a collection of about 200 breeding birds,
primarily budgerigars and cockatiels, to begin her color quest journey, producing
hundreds of the multiple varieties of combined color mutations in budgies every
year - from Yellowface Opaline White Blue Suffusions (Dilutes), to working with the
four forms of Pieds (Australian Dominant, Australian Banded, Recessive, and
Continental Clearflights), the Violet Clearwing series, and even resurrecting the
English Recessive Grey thought to have died out during World War II.
She concurrently began breeding cockatiels, remembering well the excitement
when the first Pearls and Cinnamons entered the USA and the Whiteface not long
after. As these colors revitalized cockatiel genetics, she documented their history
and was invited to begin her column in American Cage Bird Magazine, which led
to the publication of her first softbound work, The Complete Guide to Cockatiel
Color Mutations at the suggestion of ACBM Editor Arthur Freud, due to the amount
of mail received for her column. She presented the first documentation on
cockatiel color mutation history at the 1982 national convention of the American
Federation of Aviculture in Washington D.C., one of many that she would eventually
continue to present at, including - years later - the first international (1997)
cockatiel conference as Keynote Speaker in Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia. And
so began her "Journey into the Rainbow," which literally became her column
heading during her ten-year stint as NCS Genetics Consultant for the NCS Journal.
She received so many genetics questions to answer that she established the
COCKATIEL GENETICS WORKSHOPTM for private meetings and events, before
going on to author the renown workbook COCKATIEL GENETICS MADE EASY ,
based upon the Workshop, for those who could not attend.
Linda was soon contacted by overseas editor Brian Byles of Cage & Aviary Birds
magazine in the UK and invited to begin her cockatiel genetics column in 1990,
starting her overseas writing career. Since then, she has written several more
books, some of which are now available as Digital books, and continues to give
back to aviculture by writing for numerous publications - including writing online
on Bird Talk's website, BirdChannel.com as a Bird Breeder Expert - and serving in
many national organizations from 1980 to the present. Currently, Linda is the
Founding President of the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc., Specialty Organization Vice
President of the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc., and a Certified Panel
Judge to the Cockatiel Foundation, and the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors.
Click for professional bio.
to turn to in order to learn this baffling science, so she began her own journey of
discovery to learn, share, and teach others the methods she found that best suited
aviculturists and hobbyists in this fascinating pursuit. Beginning at the age of 12,
she started off reading the chapters on genetics in "Budgerigar Handbook," leading
to biology and related courses at Boston University and the establishment of
Tangowood Aviary in 1975. She began a collection of about 200 breeding birds,
primarily budgerigars and cockatiels, to begin her color quest journey, producing
hundreds of the multiple varieties of combined color mutations in budgies every
year - from Yellowface Opaline White Blue Suffusions (Dilutes), to working with the
four forms of Pieds (Australian Dominant, Australian Banded, Recessive, and
Continental Clearflights), the Violet Clearwing series, and even resurrecting the
English Recessive Grey thought to have died out during World War II.
She concurrently began breeding cockatiels, remembering well the excitement
when the first Pearls and Cinnamons entered the USA and the Whiteface not long
after. As these colors revitalized cockatiel genetics, she documented their history
and was invited to begin her column in American Cage Bird Magazine, which led
to the publication of her first softbound work, The Complete Guide to Cockatiel
Color Mutations at the suggestion of ACBM Editor Arthur Freud, due to the amount
of mail received for her column. She presented the first documentation on
cockatiel color mutation history at the 1982 national convention of the American
Federation of Aviculture in Washington D.C., one of many that she would eventually
continue to present at, including - years later - the first international (1997)
cockatiel conference as Keynote Speaker in Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia. And
so began her "Journey into the Rainbow," which literally became her column
heading during her ten-year stint as NCS Genetics Consultant for the NCS Journal.
She received so many genetics questions to answer that she established the
COCKATIEL GENETICS WORKSHOPTM for private meetings and events, before
going on to author the renown workbook COCKATIEL GENETICS MADE EASY ,
based upon the Workshop, for those who could not attend.
Linda was soon contacted by overseas editor Brian Byles of Cage & Aviary Birds
magazine in the UK and invited to begin her cockatiel genetics column in 1990,
starting her overseas writing career. Since then, she has written several more
books, some of which are now available as Digital books, and continues to give
back to aviculture by writing for numerous publications - including writing online
on Bird Talk's website, BirdChannel.com as a Bird Breeder Expert - and serving in
many national organizations from 1980 to the present. Currently, Linda is the
Founding President of the Cockatiel Foundation, Inc., Specialty Organization Vice
President of the American Federation of Aviculture, Inc., and a Certified Panel
Judge to the Cockatiel Foundation, and the Society of Parrot Breeders & Exhibitors.
Click for professional bio.
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