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The AFA Watchbird
 Volume XXXV Number 3

Cover Photos:
 Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps n. nobilis), Madagascar Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis b. bernieri), and Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)

Photos by Natalie Mashburn Lindholm






 



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Contents


President's Message
Jim C. Hawley, Jr.

2009 AFA Convention, Houston

Avian Borna Virus
Dr. Ian Tizard

Book Review: Alex & Me
Jamie Whittaker

Macaw Mountain
Steve Hartman

Conserving the Slender-billed Conure
Tony Pittman



Birds in German Zoos, Part II
Josef Lindholm, III

Loro Parque News
Dr. Matthais Reinschmidt

Asociacion Armonia News
Bennett Hennessy

Training Spix's Macaws
Karen Justice