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Seminar fee: $150
Discount fee: $130
If you register as a group of 3 or more, all at the same time, pay by a single check, and send a separate registration form for each person registering you are eligible for the discount. A larger discount is available for groups of 10 or more. Please contact us for details.

Location:
Conference Center,
City of College Station
1300 George Bush Dr.
College Station, TX 77840

Hotel:
Hawthorn Suites,
College Station, Texas

Your payment to RCBC covers the seminar fee only. Separate arrangements for local lodging is up to you. We have arranged a moderate group rate with block reservations at an excellent hotel located a short drive from the conference center and suggest that you stay there. The special seminar rate for the hotel is $79 per room per night and includes: lodging and full breakfast. Each room is really a 2 room suite with 2 double beds and a couch that can be opened into another double bed. There are also limited kitchen facilities including stovetop and small refrigerator. Please call at least 2 weeks before the seminar and identify yourself as a seminar participant in order to receive our special discounted rate.

Link to Hotel Web Site You can call
the Hawthorn Suites in College Station, Texas at
1-979-695-9500
(Note this number is direct to our hotel in College Station, please avoid the national toll-free number as they may not have information about our reserved block of rooms)

Seating is limited. Get your application in early!

Contact us for additional information:

Ed Kelly
210-342-6928
email: ekelly1@grandecom.net

Gary Rogers
210-495-1873
email: gary.rogers@ieee.org

River City Bird Club
email: rcbctx@rcbctx.org

A symposium for all those interested in exotic birds, including pet owners, breeders, and veterinary professionals. Register as a group to get a discount price. Here is the registration form.

Dr. Thomas Vice, DVM
Broadway Animal Hospital

Dr. Ian Tizard, BVMS, PhD
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Sharman Hoppes, DVM, DABVP(Avian)
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Donald Brightsmith, MS, Ph.D.
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Jill Heatley, DVM
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Natalie Antinoff, DVM, DABVP(Avian)
Gulf Coast Avian & Exotics

Dr. Brian L Speer, DVM, DABVP (Avian)
The Medical Center for Birds

Dr. Patricia Gray, DVM
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

Students of Avian Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

The funds raised by this symposium will be used to fund substantial donations to the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center in College Station, Texas and to scholarships for veterinary students at the Texas A & M College of Veterinary Medicine, College Station, Texas. Other contributions to benefit avian health may also be given.

Accredited Bird Seminar
Fund Raiser for the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center

Learn from the experts...

• Dr. Thomas Vice, Moderator
• Dr. Ian Tizard, "Schubot Center Research Projects"
• All Speakers, “Questions & Answers”
• “Wet Lab: Standard Laboratory, Treatment Anatomy”
• Other topics to be added

Additional Topics Under Consideration and Likely to be Added:

• Nursery Care/Pediatrics, egg to weaning
• Toxicology
• Socialization/Flight Experience
• Signs of Nutritional Deficiencies
• You Be The Vet
• Latest Innovations in Avian Medicine
• Conservation of Wild Populations

Saturday Evening

The afternoon session will end with our entire panel of speakers assembled to respond to questions from the audience. Then there will be about a 30 minute break while everyone gets a chance to make their last bids in the Silent Auction and to get their last tickets for the raffle items. During that time the dinner committee will complete preparation and setting up for a buffet dinner for all participants. After the break the raffle drawings will be done and the silent auction successful bidders will be announced. With these events completed everyone will be invited to the dinner tables.

Right after dinner we expect to have 2 or 3 additional but brief talks which will be presented by students from the Texas A & M School of Veterinary Medicine. We will also have some special recognition events in celebration of ten years of successful South Texas Avian Symposiums.

Sunday Morning Activities (9 am - 12 Noon)

• Seminar on Handling and Training (Leader to be announced)
  or
• Wet Lab: Standard Laboratory, Treatment Anatomy.
  New in the wet lab:
  1. Egg Necropsy & Candling
  2. Taking samples for post mortem analysis

Sunday Afternoon Activity (1 pm - 3 pm)

• Small group tours of the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine with veterinary students as guides.

The Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners has certified the Seminar and Wet Lab for up to 11 hours of Continuing Education Credit