RESCUE AND ADOPTION INFORMATION     

  • If you need information about turning in a rescued bird or would like to adopt a bird, please call Chris Ferguson at 254-458-8743 or e-mail at chris.ferguson2@us.army.mil.

    Who We Are     

    • Kentuckiana Feathered Friends is a Not for Profit Kentucky Bird Club based out of Louisville, KY that Supports avian education, protection, preservation, research and Avian Rescues with an Annual Exotic Bird and Supply Fair held in Bardstown, Ky. We are dedicated to Avian Education, Protection, Preservation, Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation. We firmly believe that there is a Bird for Every Home and a Home for Every Bird.

      Our Mission      GWMolluc198b.jpeg   Scarlett198b.jpeg    

      Kentuckiana Feathered Friends is dedicated to avian education, protection, preservation, research, rescue and rehabilitation.

      Our Objectives

      • To encourage the public's interest in adding a feathered friend to their family.
      • To enourage the interest of bird enthusiasts in protecting birds, especially endangered spieces.
      • To study and dietary, emotional and physical requirements of birds and to promote better health care.
      • To keep in touch with bird club members through our monthly meetings, club website and newsletter.
      • To share new ideas, stories and experiences about our feathered friends.
      • To keep in touch with other bird clubs throughout the country and learn from their experiences.
      • To encourage and support research into the eradication of avian diseases that affect our feathered friends. 
      • To rescue, rehabilitate and find loving home for birds who are abused, or no longer wanted as a family member.


      Our Special Projects

      Rescue & Adoption Program
      It is our distinct pleasure to inform all of the Animal Control and Humane Societies in the Greater Kentuckiana Area that Kentuckiana Feathered Friends is now partnering with HealthiPet Network of Anderson, Indiana for ALL Exotic and Avian Rescues. The HealthiPet Network was founded to assist Avian and Exotic animal shelters and rescues in placing displaced companions in forever loving homes outside of their area or home state. It utilizes volunteers to perform home inspections prior to placement. They operate as a federally approved 501(c) 3 NON-PROFIT organization and funding comes from donations, grants, adoption fees, and membership dues. They also operate a rescue at their home office as a federally approved 501(c) 3 NON-PROFIT NO KILL shelter. HealthiPet Network has a website that can be viewed at http://www.healthipet.webs.com/ . Kentuckiana Feathered Friends has partnered with HealthiPet so that we may better serve the general public. As we do not have a rescue or rehabilitation facility locally, Tim Lacy, Executive Director of HealthiPet, is better equipped to handle any and all birds of all shapes and sizes, background, temperament and health condition. Kentuckiana Feathered Friends will transport the birds to Tim in Indiana. All you have to do is call Tim Lacy or Robert Pucci at 765-644-1888 and tell them your information and location, hours you are open and the species of the bird or exotic animal. Tim or Robert will then contact Chris Ferguson, who is one of our members and a Home checker and Transporter for HealthiPet for details on the pick-up hours. Chris will transport your rescue, whether it is a Finch or a Macaw, to HealthiPet Network in Anderson, Indiana where the bird will be vet checked, any medical issues addressed, rehabilitated as needed and then adopted out to a good home with loving humans. As of the above date Kentuckiana Feathered Friends will not be responsible for receiving any birds from any shelter as rescues/rehabilitations. We are not authorizing any member of our organization to accept birds on our behalf, with the exception of Chris Ferguson of Fort Knox, KY who is responsible ONLY for transporting the bird(s) to HealthiPet Network of Anderson, IN. Any other Member or Board Member who is called for a rescue is not authorized to receive the bird for free under the name of Kentuckiana Feathered Friends and does so at their own risk. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Teresa Whitlow at (502) 367-1636. Thank you for your assistance in this matter. We feel this will be a wonderful partnership for all of us and will be a greater benefit for the birds!
        
      Feather Distribution Project
      KFFBC advidly supports the donation of molted and dropped feathers to the Feather Distribution Project founded by Jonathan Reyman, Ph.D. In 1982, in response to an earler request for macaw feathers from a Cochiti Pueblo religious official, Reyman found the Feather Distribution Project to provid macaw, parrot, and wild turkey feathers to the Pueblos for use in traditional religious ceremonies. Feathers are donated by bird clubs, bird owners, breeders, zoos, and veterinarians. To date, more than 7,000,000 feathers have been distributed free-of-charge to 29 Pueblo villages. The project does not buy or sell feathers, and no macaws or parrots are destroyed to provide the feathers to the Pueblos. In recent years, the project has also provided cockatoo, cockatiel, and other feathers to members of the Native American Church for their religious use. The project's Web page a can be found at www.wingwise.com/feather.htm 

      How Do We Do It?

      Annual Bird Fair
      We sponsor an annual bird fair each July to raise the funds necessary to support club activities, avian organizations and research. Our next bird fair will be July 18, 2009 (10-5)  at the Abraham Lincoln American Legion Post 167 on Downs Avenue (off HWY 31E/150) in Bardstown, Kentucky. For more information on the fair contact       Chris Ferguson @ 254-458-8743 or email at thundermg1swife@yahoo.com , Kathy Cook at 502-366-7152 or e-mail kathyc256@insightbb.com.


      Kentuckiana Feathered Friends supports the following avian organizations that improve the life and well-being of our feathered friends:

      • M.A.R.E.  (Midwest Avian Research Expo) 
      • World Parrot Trust  
      • Avian Research
      • Feathered Wishes

      Affiliations

      • Bird World Magazine 
      • National Cockatiel Society
      • Bird Talk Magazine
      • World Parrot Trust
      • Gabriel Foundation
      • Association of Avian Veterinarians www.aav.org
      • American Federation of Aviculture (AFA)