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birds for about 20 years and has been with the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Husbandry Department
for 15 years. She manages the aquarium’s avian exhibits, including the shorebirds, Common Murres,
puffins, African Penguins, Red‐footed Booby, and Laysan Albatross, as well as the aquarium’s
Snowy Plover rehabilitation program.
Jo Gregson is the Curator of Birds at the Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Dover, England.
She is the Vice chair of the Ratite and Charadriiformes Taxon Advisory Groups and also sits on
EAZA hornbill and stork committees. Presently she is involved in the Socorro Dove Zenaida
graysoni and Pink Pigeon Nesoenas mayeri reintroduction projects. Jo has spent seven years
managing a team of aviculturists working toward the translocation of the Cirl Bunting Emberiza
cirlus to the UK county/region of Cornwall. She is currently working closely with VIETNATURE
adding her skills and expertise to the Edwards’s Pheasant reintroduction project. Jo believes that
well‐practiced aviculture can lead to conservation success.
Sophie Hebert Saulnier earned a DVM from the University of Montreal, and has been in practice
at the Montreal Avian and Exotic Animal Hospital since 2010. She taught animal health technol-
ogy and gives regular presentations to the general public and to veterinary students in Quebec. She
spent a year in Belize working with Belize Bird Rescue, a multi‐species wild bird rescue center
specializing in the rehabilitation for release of wild‐caught (poached) parrots. She has also worked
with various psittacine conservation projects throughout the Americas.

Linda Henry has been a supervisor at SeaWorld San Diego’s Penguin Encounter since 1983.
Henry was a lead team member in five penguin propagation projects involving the incubation and
hand‐rearing of seven species of penguins from eggs collected in the Antarctic. These projects
helped to establish penguin hand‐rearing and incubation guidelines and contributed to the knowl-
edge of penguin growth rates. Linda co‐authored chapters in Reproduction for the Penguin
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Husbandry Manual (1994, 2005) and the Penguin Care Manual (2014). Henry is currently the SSP
Program Coordinator for King Penguins and Candidate Program Leader for Emperor Penguins.
Henry is an advisor on lighting to the Penguin Taxon Advisory Group.

Linda Hufford is an avian wildlife rehabilitator permitted in the state of Texas and through the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1995.

Susie Kasielke started her career as an Animal Keeper at the Los Angeles Zoo in 1977 and earned
a BS degree in Avian Sciences at the University of California, Davis. She was Curator of Birds at the
LA Zoo from 2001 to 2016. She is currently the Avian Biologist for the Toledo Zoo and Aquarium.
Through her involvement in the California Condor Recovery Program, she worked with the staff
at LA Zoo and partner facilities to develop and refine propagation, incubation, and rearing meth-
ods for California Condors and many other species. She teaches workshops on avian egg incuba-
tion for zoo and avicultural groups around the world. She has also taught aviculture at Pierce
College and is a guest lecturer at Moorpark College, UCLA, and UC Davis.

Ashton Kluttz is the Executive Director of the Bird Rescue Center (BRC, Santa Rosa, CA), and
holds a BA degree in Environmental Studies from Washington College (Chestertown, MD) and
certification as a Registered Veterinary Technician. She began her career as a wildlife rehabilitator
at The Marine Mammal Center, where she served as a marine mammal stranding intern. From
2009 to 2013 she worked at the Bird Rescue Center as a Shift Supervisor, and advanced to