2024 Avian Online Conference for Education and Training
About AvOCET
Held by Avian Behavior International, AvOCET 2024 will be a virtual gathering space for bird behavior, training, education, and conservation enthusiasts. With internationally featured renowned speakers, paper submissions, panel discussions, and breakout rooms, the conference is designed to foster challenging ideas and thoughtful discussion, give attendees access to incredible minds in academia and animal care, and keep our community engaged with and feeling inspired by the latest work in the field and laboratory
AvOCET Conference April 26-27, 2024
Schedule
See below
Presentations
The AvOCET conference is designed to foster challenging ideas and thoughtful discussion, give attendees access to incredible minds in academia and animal care, and keep our community engaged with and feeling inspired by the latest work in the field and laboratory.
Hillary Hankey
Barbara Heidenreich
Sean Will & Maasa Nishimuta
Lee Stone
Joe Whitehead
Annette Pedersen
Lauren McGough
Gail Buhl
Stephanie Ashley
Emily Davenport
Stephanie Rosenbloom
This is going to be one of the premiere events of 2024! Be sure not to miss out!
Registration Deadlines
Presale Tickets
November 30, 2023
Early Bird Registration
January 31, 2023
Final Registration
April 20, 2024
*** All ticket tiers are limited! ***
Schedule
Coming Soon
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Friday April 26
7:30AM
Hillary Hankey
Opening Notes
8:00 AM
Gail Buhl
Partners For Wildlife, Minnesota Raptor Center
Quality of Life for Aging Ambassadors: How to Use Ethograms and Activity Budgets to Make Informed Choices
9:00 AM
Sean Will and Maasa Nishimuta
Constructional Approach to Animal Training
Incorporating function-based training and
degrees of freedom in modern animal training
10:00 AM
Copenhagen Zoo
Unmasking the Hidden Drivers: Understanding Superimposition in Behavior Interventions to Improve Animal Welfare
11:00 AM
Break
12:00PM
Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance
Collaborative Conservation
1:00 PM
Joe Whitehead
Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center
Exchanging knOWLedge: Sharing Thoughts and Experiences
Working with Rehabilitated, Parent-reared Owls in an Education Setting
2:00 PM
Lee Stone
Parrot Life Behaviour and Training
The Importance of Integrative Behaviour Care for Feather Destructive Behaviour Cases
Saturday, April 27th
7:30 am
Opening Notes
8:00AM
Barbara Heidenreich
Animal Training Fundamentals
An Alternative, Efficient, and Powerful System for Training Complex Behaviors
9:00 AM
Stephanie Ashley
Peregrine Fund
Addressing Neotribal Biases in Avian Care and Training
10:00AM
Hillary Hankey
Avian Behavior International
How to Make Cost-Benefit Analyses for Challenging Training Decisions
11:00pm
Break
12:00pm
Stephanie Rosenbloom
Nerdy Bird Collective
“How the flock do I feed my parrot?”
1:00pm
Lauren McGough, PhD
Bringing Together Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Modern Training Techniques to Build the Best Relationship with Golden Eagles
2:00pm
Discussion panel and Q&A