American Federation of Aviculture (AFA)

AFA serves the United States and the International community of people who keep birds, such as bird breeders, pet owners, veterinarians, re-homers and sanctuaries, conservation scientists, and the commercial members that support aviculture.

AFA is aviculture’s contact to US Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA, CITES, and Congress.

Join AFA Now And Receive:

• Award Winning Journal “Watchbird” about bird keeping, breeding conservation and more…….
• 10% discount on your bird feed and supplies from our commercial members with our Member-to-Member program.
• Network bird clubs and bird keeping businesses with our members, to keep the bird community together to learn and problem-solve.
• Free line advertising in “Fast Ads” bimonthly to advertise birds for sale.
• Conservation News at next publication.
• Legislative alerts.

AFA Activities

• Annual educational conference to share the best bird breeding, keeping, and avian medicine practices.
• Educational courses.

• • Avian Biology Classroom Free curriculum for education.
  • Fundamentals of Aviculture I Introductory bird-keeping course discounted for AFA members.
  • Fundamentals of Aviculture II Advanced bird-keeping course discounted for AFA members.

• Disaster relief to aid bird owners and breeders during natural disasters.
• Bird bands and Bird band registry to register ownership of birds.
• Supports conservation and research activities.