January 1, 2025
by Elizabeth
Comments Off on Volunteer Opportunity – Foster Home/Aviary Provider
Our foster care providers are the heart and soul of Palomacy. We don’t have a shelter facility or sanctuary. All of our birds depend on foster care. We can only say Yes to rescuing a bird when we have a … Continue reading
January 1, 2025
by Heather Hohlowski
Comments Off on Volunteer Opportunity – WordPress Guru
Palomacy’s website lives on WordPress and while we know the basic basics, we also know that WP offers many features we should be taking advantage of (Forms and SEO are two important ones). We also want optimal integration with Plugins, … Continue reading
January 1, 2025
by Heather Hohlowski
Comments Off on Volunteer Opportunity – Social Media/TikTok Wrangler
We have lots of compelling photos and powerful stories and we post to social media every day but we need someone who can help us level up our profiles! We have 42K followers on Facebook, 15K on Instagram and only … Continue reading
January 1, 2025
by Heather Hohlowski
Comments Off on Volunteer Opportunity – Graphic Design Assistant
We are always looking for help with the creation of online announcement graphics about fundraising campaigns, birds in need of homes, outreach events, flyers, and more. A few examples are shown below. Frequency: Commit only to the projects you choose … Continue reading
January 1, 2025
by Elizabeth
Comments Off on Volunteer Opportunity – Rescue & Transport Assistance
Palomacy receives emails, messages, and phone calls every day from people who have found a pigeon or dove in the park, their backyard, under a car, in a store… birds who are lost, injured, scared, often all three. We need … Continue reading
January 1, 2025
by Heather Hohlowski
Comments Off on Volunteer Opportunity – Adoptions and Placements Development
There are so many beautiful, amazing, sassy, sweet pigeons and doves in need of homes! We need more people power helping to inspire potential adopters, to coach and support applicants and to develop placement partnerships with sanctuaries, wineries, shelters, and … Continue reading
December 2, 2024
by Elizabeth
Comments Off on kiersten’s Birrb Blog #1,277 | April 2022: Punky is his name-o
Guest post by kiersten stein ◦Safeway Manager calls Jill: “There’s a pigeon running wild in the parking lot!” Jill texts kiersten: “Hey. Domestic pigeon at Safeway Livermore needs rescuing. Can you help?” First Attempt – kiersten arrives armed with a … Continue reading
November 18, 2024
by Elizabeth
Comments Off on Pigeon on a Shelf Holiday Auction 2024
Palomacy volunteer Heather Hamilton writes, First, I want to express heartfelt gratitude on behalf of myself, Palomacy, and each and every bird whose life was saved and enriched by the work of Palomacy Pigeon and Dove Adoptions. Palomacy’s life-saving organization … Continue reading
October 3, 2024
by Elizabeth
Comments Off on Honoring Hero Heather Ho(lowski)
Scroll to the bottom for October 26 Update Friends of Palomacy know that it takes an incredibly dedicated, generous flock of volunteers to do all the rescuing, healing, rehoming, educating, coaching and caring that we do to help so many … Continue reading
August 13, 2024
by Elizabeth
Comments Off on Pigeon Wants String Off of Her Feet
Stringfoot is the cause of much pain and suffering in pigeon flocks, and without treatment results in the loss of toes, feet or legs. Stringfoot occurs when pigeons get human generated detritus such as hair, string, fishing line or thread … Continue reading