A Wild Bird Center is a specialty retail shop offering a complete line of products to help people enjoy their wild birds and foster a healthy backyard habitat. We offer top-quality birdseed and exclusive seed blends that are field-tested and proven to attract a variety of wild birds. In addition to an extensive selection of feeders, birdbaths, nest boxes and other bird feeding products, our stores offer a variety of backyard and nature-oriented gifts and books, plus a wide range of binoculars and spotting scopes for watching songbirds on your bird feeders, hummingbirds on your flowers or hawks circling or migrating overhead.
Wild Bird Center stores are incredible community resources that offer monthly birdwalks, demonstrations, seminars, children's programs and other educational events. Additionally, all stores are locally owned, which means that storeowners are birding enthusiasts who love what they do and love sharing the birding hobby with others.
Our stores are also excellent resources to learn about nature in your community. At any Wild Bird Center store, customers can learn about local habitat, birding and many aspects of nature's wonders. Additionally, our
company's recent corporate partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has opened unprecedented access to the leading birding research for all of our stores.
Founded by George Petrides Sr., the Wild Bird Center retail concept started in 1985 with a single store in Cabin John, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. Now a leading national retail franchise, headquartered in Glen Echo, Md. and just one mile from the original store, our franchise system has grown to nearly 100 Wild Bird Center and Wild Bird Crossing stores serving communities and the birding hobby throughout the United States and Canada.
You are encouraged to contact us with any questions you might have about birding, our stores or all about one of the fastest growing hobbies in America.