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Jamie Gilardi - blogger

James Gilardi is the Executive Director of the World Parrot Trust. He is a conservation biologist specializing in behavioural and physiological ecology with special focus on tropical forest birds and marine vertebrates.

Following undergraduate studies at the University of Washington and UC Santa Cruz, he earned a Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Davis studying parrot social behaviour, foraging ecology, and soil-eating in south-eastern Peru.

Dr. Gilardi has also worked on parrot conservation in Guatemala, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Mexico.
In the fall of 2000, he became the director of the World Parrot Trust, where he is oversees the work of the Trust, developing, supporting, and implementing parrot conservation and education programs around the world.