AVIORNIS INTERNATIONAL

Vereniging zonder winstoogmerk

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Internationale Bond Park - en Sierwatervogels

Association Internationale Faisans & Aquatiques d’Ornement

International Pheasants and Waterfowl Association

 

Aviornis International, of which Aviornis UK is a chapter, was itself formed in 1973, by a group of Aviculturists in Gent, Belgium, primarily to look after the interests of breeders of Wildfowl, Galliformes (Pheasants, Partridges, Quail etc) Doves and Parkland Birds.

 

They now have over 7,000 members in Belgium, Holland, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal and now the United Kingdom.

 

Aviornis in the past was centred around the Benelux countries, where much useful information was freely exchanged among its members.

 

Aviornis International pioneered a unique Ringing/Registration scheme, with each member allocated his/ her own number to be kept for life.  There was also a serial number, ring size, year and different colour for each year.  All this information could be recorded on a card sent out with the rings and then returned at the end of the breeding season to be stored on a central computer in Belgium.  (Aviornis UK has since continued this scheme in the UK and  now supplies Registration and Rings throughout the World, including this service to other Chapters).

 AVIORNIS INTERNATIONAL

   

Aviornis International was formed in 1973

                            by a group of Aviculturists in Gent, Belgium

Aviornis International was formed to look after the interests of its members, a theme Aviornis UK is continuing into the present and long into the future.

 

There are several Chapters spread throughout Europe of which the UK Chapter is one.

 

 

Red-legged Partridge Arabian — (Male)

 

(Alectoris rufa)

 

 

 

 

Photographed by Gary Robbins