Palomacy Saves Domestic Pigeons & Doves 2023

Together we are helping so many amazing birds! In 2020, in Northern California, thanks to YOU- our incredible adopters, volunteers & donors, Palomacy:

• Rescued more than 450 pigeons & doves
• Healed & cared for an average of 180 foster birds every day at 40 home/aviary sites
• Placed 257 birds with 66 wonderful, screened & supported adopters

While online, our Palomacy Help Group moderators:

• Responded to more than 12,000 posts providing fast, bird-centered, trustworthy support, information & referrals to people (from all over the world) needing help & info about pigeons & doves 

Our little rescue has grown into a game-changing engine of life-saving compassion & support for so many pigeons & doves who, without help like ours, suffer & die. 

And we need to keep growing! There are more birds in need of our help! With more support- more adopters, volunteers & donors- we can make an even bigger difference for these birds. They have been used & abused, overlooked & underserved for far too long. People are blown away when they learn the truth about pigeons & doves- their plight & their promise. 

Numbers can't really tell their stories, though. Read about how gentle Barry, crumpled on the ground with a wing shattered during a training race, got healthy, happy & home. Meet sick King pigeon kids Shirin & Kian, survivors of the squab industry & inhumane release; childhood sweethearts rescued, lovingly fostered, expertly treated & when healed, adopted as cherished house pigeons. See how we saved 39 Ringneck doves & a pigeon who were crowded, dirty, unsafe & displaced. Your support writes these success stories (& so many more).

Today is the start of an important fundraiser: GlobalGiving's weeklong Little by Little Bonus Match Campaign. Little by little is how we do this! We need your support to sustain our unprecedented work. Every donation (one per donor) up to $50 will earn a 50% bonus match. For every person who donates $50, the birds will get $75! Your donations save lives. Thank you!

Links:

• Donate!
• Volunteer!
• Foster or Adopt!

Your support of Palomacy saved this beautiful, brave, smart and terribly wounded self-rescuing pigeon. Not even a year old, this "raced" pigeon survived a devastating hawk strike and was nearly dead from infection by the time she got help. The first photo shows her weak, desperately seeking help on a stranger's porch. The kind homeowner reached out to Palomacy and Prissy, as she was named, was immediately rescued by expert volunteer Chava. Chava was able to get Prissy through that critical night by administering sub cu fluids, starting her on antibiotics and pain meds, gently cleaning and bandaging her deep wound and reassuring the exhausted bird with her loving care. Chava gave Prissy reason to hope.

And Prissy made it through the night, wowing us with her newfound strength the next morning. Gone was the defeated, helpless, desperate pigeon. Bright-eyed, hopeful Prissy was standing tall, determined to recover! Chava juggled her schedule to make the 100 miles rountrip as did our incredible vets at Medical Center for Birds juggle theirs to make emergency room for Prissy to be rushed in and hospitalized immediately.

Dr. Baden repeatedly debrieded Prissy's big, deep chest wound, removing multiple layers of necrotic tissue so that she could begin the long process of healing. After three days in the hospital, Prissy was discharged back to Chava who took her home and expertly continued her wound care for over a month.

Prissy was a perfect patient and has made a complete recovery. She can even fly again! And now she has moved into a foster-to-adopt home with a family who loves her so much! She follows them into the dining room at dinner time so they give her her own seat at the table and they prep her a little dish of something she can eat, like a little cooked brown rice, chopped bell pepper, etc, and she eats dinner with the family every night.

Prissy is just one of the 380 birds you've helped Palomacy to directly save this year. And we've assisted thousands more through our Help Group. Your support is truly making a life and death difference.

Right now, while GlobalGiving's biggest ever GivingTuesday bonus match is happening, your donation will help more than ever. Donations up to $2500 made between now and 9 PM PT Tuesday 12/1 will earn a bonus match. (You can watch our progress on the leaderboard.)

Thank you for all that you do to help Palomacy help birds and the people who love them. You make all the difference.

Links:

• Please donate now for GivingTuesday bonus match
• Watch our progress on the leaderboard
• Order 2021 Palomacy Calendars- 365 BirdADay Desk &/or Wall style