Liz Wilson

 

 

Liz Wilson

 

Liz Wilson, a certified veterinary technician and certified parrot behavior consultant, has been living and working with parrots for thirty-five years, with twenty years of experience specializing in avian and exotic animal nursing. Her current feathered companion is a 50+ year-old female blue and gold macaw named Sam, who has shared Liz's life for 35 years.

With prior training in elementary education and psychology, Liz started working with behavior in companion parrots twenty years ago. She has gained recognition internationally as a parrot behavior consultant thanks to her lectures, seminars, freelance writing and consultations with parrot owners. An experienced and entertaining speaker, she has done extensive lecturing with avian veterinary conferences, avicultural conferences, companion parrot conferences, and bird clubs both here and in Europe.

She has written extensively for BIRD TALK Magazine and BIRDS USA (both available at http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-magazines/bird-talk/, as well as the AMAZONA QUARTERLY, the ORIGINAL FLYING MACHINE, the PET BIRD REPORT, and PARROTS MAGAZINE. She has been doing the “Parrot Psychology” column in BIRD TALK since 2001. In addition, her articles have been published in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, China, Sweden and Russia.

In addition to numerous veterinary articles published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association [JAVMA], The Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery [JAMS], and the Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine, she has now written or co-authored eight veterinary textbook chapters, including two for Dr. Greg Harrison’s CLINICAL AVIAN MEDICINE (SPIX Publishing), and three for the MANUAL OF PARROT BEHAVIOR edited by Dr. Andrew Luescher (Blackwell Publishing). In addition, she has two books of article reprints, the HANDBOOK OF AVIAN ARTICLES, Vol. I & II. Both books can be ordered through this website.

Due to her devotion to helping parrots through helping colleagues (and herself) learn more about parrot behavior and working with parrot owners, she founded and chairs the Parrot Division of an extraordinary organization, the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. She also serves as the IAABC Treasurer, as well as holding a position on the Board of Directors.

She is also dedicated to parrot welfare, education and preventing parrots from needing new homes. In this capacity, she is honored to be the Education Vice President of the Phoenix Landing Foundation,

Despite no longer working directly with veterinarians, she continues her membership of the Association of Avian Veterinarians, of which she has been a member since (she thinks) 1984. She is also a member of the Parrot Education and Adoption Center, the Veterinary Technician Animal Behavior Society. As a devotee of Amazon parrots (despite not living with one), she is proud to be the Pennsylvania state representative of The Amazona Society.

In addition to doing in-home behavior consultations in the Philadelphia region and in areas where she travels and lectures, Liz does phone consultations with parrot owners all over the world. Until recently, when writing, lecturing and consultations started taking too much of her time, she was an adjunct faculty member in the veterinary technician department at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA. She also worked extensively with wildlife rehabilitation for seven years.

 

Liz Wilson Official Site

The International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants