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The Wild Bird Centers of America, Inc. is a franchisor of retail stores which sell wild bird feeding supplies such as wild bird seed, bird feeders, bird baths, poles and baffles, bird houses, nature gifts and binoculars to backyard bird feeding hobbyists and bird watchers.

The company was founded in 1985 by George H. Petrides, Sr in Cabin John, Maryland a suburb of Washington, DC. The company now supports about 65 stores in the Unite States and Canada plus numerous Wild Bird Centers product outlets in independent garden centers and hardware stores in the United States.

The company is famous for customer service and innovative programs so that franchisees are proud to call their businesses “The Ultimate Backyard Bird Feeding Store”. The company supports other national organizations such as the National Bird-Feeding Society, BirdStars ,Birdzilla , Environment for the Americas , National Wildlife Refuge System, and Bird Education Network which are dedicated to the preservation of wildlife habitat, wild bird research and development of educational programs about wild birds for youth and adults.