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

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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

elite bird of prey experience

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

Annette Pedersen
Copenhagen Zoo
Unmasking the Hidden Drivers: Understanding Superimposition in Behavior Interventions to Improve Animal Welfare

 

11:00 AM

Break

 

12:00PM

Emily Davenport
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