Donald Brightsmith holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University, an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University. His interest in birds started at a young age with binoculars in the backyard and has led him to projects, presentations, teaching and advising in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Indonesia, Spain, England, Australia and throughout the US. His specialties are tropical ecology, ornithology and wildlife conservation, especially topics related to wild parrots. He has worked on parrots in Peru since 1993 and has run the Tambopata Macaw Project since 1999. His research has focused on a wide variety of topics including parrot conservation, clay lick use, nesting, foraging, habitat use, etc. He also conducts research on diets of captive and wild parrots. As an advisor to government and private parrot conservation projects throughout Latin America and in Indonesia he is helping put his knowledge to work for the benefit of wild parrots.

Speaker's Topic #1: Improving companion parrot nutrition through studies of wild and captive parrots
Speaker's Topic #2: Conserving Parrots Through Ecotourism and Conservation Science

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