Avicultural Society of America, For bird breeding, restoration and education. Founded 1927

We are putting together a great program for our next Avicultural Conference to be held in Dallas Texas in association with Dallas World Aquarium. Each year, the ASA Avicultural Conference has been fun, informational and unique! 2010 promises to continue our goal to make the ASA Avicultural Conference the must-attend avicultural event of the year.

Speaker Highlight

Ricardo Valentin - Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Project - Title: Recovery Efforts for the Puerto Rican Amazon Parrot

Ricardo Valentin has been the Aviculturist and manager of the Vivaldi Aviary since 1999. He manages the captive propagation program of the critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot for the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. His master thesis was an analysis of history of the captive reproduction of the PR parrot. He has been successful at breeding large numbers of PR parrots. His success at captive breeding has allowed the creation of a second wild population of the west of the island of Puerto Rico that now boasts over forty birds.

Since he was a child he has loved raising and breeding all kinds of animals. Right now he lives at the Vivaldi Aviary with the parrots, his orchids and a few fish whose company he find greatly soothing because they are extremely weak biters and utterly incapable of screaming.

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