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Margaret A. Wissman, DVM, DABVP, Avian Practice, graduated from the University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine, in 1981. She became board certified in Avian Practice in 1994, by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners. She is active in the credentialing committee for ABVP. She is a member of the Association of Reptile and Amphibian Veterinarians. She is a past board member of the Association of Avian Veterinarians and was active on the editorial board, as well.
Dr. Wissman has a 100% avian/exotic animal practice, in Wesley Chapel, Florida. She works part-time performing consultations for Antech Diagnostic Labs, assisting veterinarians with their exotic cases throughout the Unites States and Canada. She lectures world-wide on avian and exotic animal topics for veterinary organizations, bird clubs and reptile groups. She writes the monthly "Causes and Cures" column for Bird Talk magazine and is a frequent contributor to many lay and professional textbooks, proceedings and journals. She also writes the on-line ask-the-vet column for Reptiles On-Line magazine. She contributes to Birds USA, Rabbits USA, Reptiles USA and Critters USA periodically.
Together with her husband, Bill Parsons, they maintain Small World Zoological Gardens and Sanctuary, a facility dedicated to the captive conservation and breeding of endangered and threatened parrots, reptiles and callitrichids (marmosets and tamarins). She and her husband spend their spare time horseback riding and enjoying their six horses (one Arabian, two quarter horses and three miniature horses). They like to jet ski with their Chinese Crested dogs and go scuba diving in the Florida Keys. Dr. Wissman has pet budgerigars and a cockatiel named Chloe.
Bill Parsons has a Master's Degree in zoology. He and his wife, Dr. Margaret Wissman, own Icarus Mobile Veterinary Service, a mobile veterinary practice devoted exclusively to avian and exotic pets. His area of expertise is avicultural medicine.
Bill has hand-raised some of the most endangered psittacines in the world, including the St. Vincent's Amazon, Red-browed Amazon, Yellow-shouldered Amazon, Salvin's Amazon, Lilacine Amazon, Hyacinth macaw and more. He has hand-raised thousands of baby psittacines for a sanctuary for endangered parrots, as well as the offspring of his own birds. He and Dr. Wissman own over 50 pairs of parrots, including Golden Conures, Scarlet macaws, Blue and Gold macaws, Green-winged macaws, Yellow-shouldered Amazons, Lilacine Amazons, and many species of conure, Amazon, pionus and Eclectus. They also have a flock of cockatiels and budgerigars.
Bill has co-authored many papers that have been presented at AAV and other conferences. He has extensive experience in breeding lories and lorikeets, and has published several papers on them. He has had many photographs published in Bird Talk magazine and Birds USA.
He and his wife co-own Small World Zoological Gardens and Sanctuary, dedicated to the captive conservation of threatened and endangered callitrichids (marmosets and tamarins). They also take in unwanted parrots, reptiles and small monkeys. They currently have a large, blind Galapagos tortoise that was donated to their facility.
Bill is a certified Microsoft consultant. He works part-time for a law office as their Business Operations Manager. He has had a life-long interest in horses and is an avid rider, co-owning three pleasure horses and three evil miniature horses (that bite and kick with little provocation) with his wife.
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Sherrie bred and showed parrots for eight years in New Orleans, LA and in Dover, FL. She also volunteered at the Baton Rouge Zoo in the docent program and at a no kill animal shelter there. After retiring from aviculture, she still wanted to give something back to the avian community so in 1998 she began building this website. The site has definitely grown since its beginning and continues to be one of her favorite projects. She is a full time web designer and webmaster, with one of her specialties being sites that are animal oriented. If you are interested in hiring a web designer, you can find more information at mardigrasdesign.com. |
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