Mr. Bird
Seed cylinders, cakes, bells and seed houses pressed by hand in New Braunfels, Texas, from blends developed for wild birds.
🇺🇸 Made in USA
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Where Mr. Bird products are made
“For 30 years, Mr. Bird has been creating thoughtfully made seed gifts that invite wild birds closer to home. Each product is proudly handmade in New Braunfels, Texas,” the homepage reads, and a made-in-America badge sits in the footer of every page. The company’s address is the same New Braunfels industrial address.
The 21-inch steel Squirrel Guard page states it directly: “21″ steel guard that WILL protect bird feeders from squirrels. Made in the USA!” That is the hardware side of the catalogue rather than the seed side.
Individual seed-cylinder pages — the large safflower cylinder, for instance — list ingredients (“Safflower, and gelatin”) without repeating an origin line, and the company does not publish where its seed is grown. Bird seed is an agricultural commodity with a mixed market; this profile claims the blending and pressing in Texas, which is what Mr. Bird claims.
Made in USA fits a company that names the town it works in, presses its product by hand there, and attaches an explicit line to the one manufactured-metal item in the range. The limit worth stating is the seed itself: Mr. Bird does not publish grain origin and this page does not infer it.
The story
“We started Mr.Bird in 1996 when we owned an independent wild bird supply store in San Antonio, Texas,” the company writes. Thirty years later it operates from an industrial address in New Braunfels, about thirty miles up the interstate.
The products are seed held together in a shape: cylinders and cakes that slide onto a feeder, bells, seed houses and seasonal ornaments, alongside steel feeders and squirrel guards. The blends are the company’s own, described as “signature seed blends developed specifically for wild birds.”
It is still run by the founders, who go by Birch, and it is small enough that a nationwide safflower shortage is posted on the site as news rather than absorbed quietly.
Why they matter
Bird feeding is a category where almost nothing tells you who made what. Seed cakes are commodity goods, frequently pressed by contract packers and sold under a dozen labels, and the shelf gives no clue which is which.
Mr. Bird names the town and the year and puts a made-in-America badge on every page. That is a small company choosing to be identifiable in a category that mostly is not.
The seed shortage notice is a good tell in its own right. A company that posts “nationwide shortage of golden safflower” on its own storefront is a company close enough to its own raw material to feel it.
Shop Mr. Bird products
Wild bird seed cylinders, cakes, bells, seed houses and ornaments, plus steel feeders and the 21-inch Squirrel Guard.
Mr. Bird questions
Is Mr. Bird made in the USA?
Yes, by the company’s own statement: “Each product is proudly handmade in New Braunfels, Texas.” The steel Squirrel Guard carries a separate per-product line, “Made in the USA!”, and a made-in-America badge appears in the sitewide footer.
Where is Mr. Bird based?
New Braunfels, Texas. The company publishes 1320 Industrial Drive, New Braunfels, TX 78130 in the footer of every page.
When was Mr. Bird founded?
1996. “We started Mr.Bird in 1996 when we owned an independent wild bird supply store in San Antonio, Texas.”
Is the seed itself American-grown?
Mr. Bird does not say, and this profile does not claim it. The company claims the product is handmade in New Braunfels; seed-ingredient origin is not published. Bird seed is a globally traded commodity, so treat the grain as unstated rather than domestic.