Schubot Center—a new name and logo!
Our center is now officially called the ‘Schubot Center for Avian Health’ (updated from the ‘Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center’). We are excited for the center name to reflect our broad, inclusive, and expanding work to study birds, ranging from caged birds to wild populations, conservation, genetics, health, and more. Our logo features a few key species with great significance to the center. First, the endangered Whooping Crane has only a single natural migratory population that winters exclusively here in Texas, and Schubot members have been studying crane disease ecology and have sequenced the genome of the species to open new doors for conservation. Second, the Scarlet Macaw is a large parrot and popular in the aviculture community; researchers with Schubot work on conservation and chick survival of macaws in the wild including a longstanding conservation program based in Tambopata, Peru. Third, the monk parakeet (also known as a quaker parrot) is endemic to South America with many feral/invasive populations across cities in the USA, Europe, and more. The Schubot Aviary has >100 monk parakeets that are used for research, teaching, and outreach.