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Download and printable Exhibitor Registration Form updated.
Direct link for Sheraton Atlantic City Hotel and Conference Center room registration and local information is available. This website has MASAAV specific registration information. 2-11
If you are having problems with the "online fill-in and submit" registration forms. Please either fill in the online forms, print them before clicking the submit button and mail them. Alternatively, download and print the printable forms, complete and mail them. 1-11
Updated lecture capsule list and listed tentative schedules for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. 1-11
Emergency Techniques Lab for Small Exotic Mammals is scheduled for Sunday evening. 1-11
2011 online registration forms for the Thirty-second Annual Avian Medicine and Surgery Conference are available. 12-10
- Veterinarian form
- Technician forms for Sunday-only or entire conference
- Student form
Confirmed speakers list for 201112-10

Previous attendees have repeatedly asked for it, so this year we are including some Exotic Companion Mammal content, about 20% of the total material to be presented. 12-10
You can come early and stay late at the conference hotel. The special conference rates are currently the lowest rate rooms still left available at the hotel. The 2011 conference site is Atlantic City NJ at the Sheraton Atlantic City Hotel and Conference Center, so register now before all the rooms are gone. 12-10
2011 conference site is Atlantic City NJ at the Sheraton Atlantic City Hotel and Conference Center on 10-12 April 2011, so keep three days open on your calendar. 7-10
Updated list of 2009 Executive Board members. 1-10
2009 Proceedings Table of Contents and order forms for book with CD or article reprints added. 4-09

These are links to avian related news articles that are of probable interest to our membership

NYC sky-scrapers dim lights to help migratory birds A growing number of New York sky-scrapers are switching off their lights to help reduce the number of birds hitting the high-rise buildings. The "lights out" project - organised by NYC Audubon - runs until 1 November, when migratory birds are expected to have completed their autumn migrations. BBC News Science & Environment(9/2/10)
Animal research offers advance warning of next flu wave Researchers at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine monitor the animals in their care closely, to provide research that's key to alerting human-health officials to the next wave of influenza. Most flu strains start in ducks, geese and other waterfowl, which spread the diseases without getting sick themselves. WRAL-TV (Raleigh, N.C. (7/28/10)
Study: Farms with business connections have greater risk of avian flu Poultry farms that share business connections have a greater risk of finding their flocks infected with the avian flu, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The risk of farm-to-farm transmission was significantly higher among farms that come under the same company umbrella, says the research, which appeared in the March 26 issue of PLoS One. United Press International (4/5/10)
Animal fighters looking for smaller game turn to finches - Bitty birds seem to be the newest chosen victims of high-stakes animal fighting. Animal welfare experts fear that two recent raids of alleged bird-fighting rings � one in Connecticut last summer, one in Massachusetts last month � foretell a growing trend. USA Today (3/9/10)