2023
- Sat11Feb2023
TikTok Live w/Fixchix, Cumulus & Palomacy!
12 PM - 1 PM PSTOnline worldwide at www.TikTok.com/Fixchix
We’re joining @Fixchix live this Sunday (2/12) at noon PST! Join us over on her channel where we’re getting the Cumulus bump! Learn more about what Palomacy does for domestic and unreleasable pigeons and doves. Meet a few of the pigeons (@heyheiheipigeon ) who have been rescued through our efforts! We can’t wait to see coo there!
@fixchix And Palomacy is on TikTok too!
- Sun12Feb2023
Pigeon Palooza @ Oakland Animal Services
12 PM - 3 PM PSTOakland Animal Services 1101 29th Avenue, Oakland CA 94601
Palomacy people- human & avian- are helping Oakland Animal Services with their Pigeon Palooza outreach & adoption event! Come out & meet us, snuggle pigeons, & get your Q & A on!
- Thu02Mar2023
Palomacy Launches as Independent Nonprofit
On March 2nd, 2023, Palomacy Pigeon and Dove Adoptions is, after being fiscally sponsored for 15 years (three by Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue & twelve with Community Initiatives), now the independent nonprofit public charity that we have always aspired to be! THANK YOU FOR LIFTING US UP! See more - Sun26Mar2023
Pigeon Palooza @ Oakland Animal Services
12 PM - 3 PM PSTOakland Animal Services 1101 29th Avenue, Oakland CA 94601
Palomacy people- human & avian- are helping Oakland Animal Services with their Pigeon Palooza outreach & adoption event! Come out & meet us, snuggle pigeons, & get your Q & A on!
- Mon03Apr2023Fri07Apr2023
Little by Little Bonus Match!
9 AM PT - 9 PM PTOnline at Global Giving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Together we help each other to help the pigeons & doves who too often are turned away or overlooked. Little by little, we are making a big difference! Starting April 3rd, donations to Palomacy via @globalgiving will earn a 100% bonus! (Limit $50, 1/donor) The campaign ends Friday 4/7 at 9 PM PT. If you donate $50, the birds get $100! Please & thank you! Watch our progress on the leaderboard.
- Thu20Apr2023
Palomacy @ Francisco Middle School STEAM Night
4:30 PM - 6 PMFrancisco Middle School, 320 Francisco Street, SF CA
Palomacy ambassadors, human & avian, will be there!
- Sat22Apr2023
Palomacy @ Berkeley Bay Festival
11 AM - 4 PMShorebird Park in front of the Strawbale Nature Center at 160 University Ave., Berkeley Marina, CA, 94710
Palomacy will be here making new friends for pigeons and doves! The Berkeley Bay Festival has been an (almost) annual event at the Berkeley Marina since 1937. The Festival provides a beautiful outdoor venue opportunity to learn, explore and be inspired! Palomacy needs volunteers! Please contact Elizabeth@PigeonRescue.org to help.
This wonderful FREE event showcasing activities and environmental education that are available here at the Marina and all around the region. Come celebrate the Earth and our Bay by listening to music, eating wonderful food, and enjoying a day by the Bay.
- Sat22Apr2023
Palomacy @ Earth Day 2023 Oakland Zoo
10AM - 3PM9777 Golf Links Road
(off Highway 580)
Oakland, CA
Celebrate Earth Day with Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions at the Oakland Zoo! Palomacy volunteers will bring pigeons and doves for you to meet and answer all your questions about these sweet, smart, amazing birds! We need helpers- please volunteer with us! The Oakland Zoo is managed by the Conservation Society of California (CSC), a non-profit organization leading an informed and inspired community to take action for wildlife locally and globally.
- Sat22Apr2023
Palomacy @ Lakeshore Elementary Community Superhero Day
1 PM - 4 PMLakeshore Elementary Playground 220 Middlefield Drive, San Francisco, CA 94132
Palomacy will be bringing avian superheroes to win all the hearts & minds!
Community Superhero Saturday is Lakeshore’s Spring carnival for the entire community, featuring games, food, and fun activities! We will have carnival games, crafts, two bounce-houses, baby goats, music, face-painting, dancing, and more. Art Club will have a big art table and activity, Lakeshore’s very own Black and Beyond will be selling produce, and our Student Council will be giving out prizes to our Lakeshore students!
Come celebrate the heroes in our Lakeshore community: Our awesome teachers, staff, students and families! Come meet some of the superheroes in our San Francisco community.
- Sun23Apr2023
Palomacy @ Sacramento Earth Day
11 Am - 4 PMSouthside Park, 8th and T Streets, Sacramento, California
Come out & meet Palomacy people- human & avian. This is a big, awesome event & the pigeons really bring the magic! Want to volunteer? Please contact Jill@pigeonrescue.org
- Sun07May2023
Palomacy @ Animals on Broadway with Tony LaRussa's ARF
10:30 AM - 3 PMBroadway Plaza, Walnut Creek CA
Palomacy is excited to represent for the pigeons & doves at this epic annual event! We’ll have a booth & be introducing our amazing birds! Outreach volunteers needed (human & avian), newbies are welcome! Please email Elizabeth to sign up. - Mon12Jun2023
Demonstration Preparation
4 PM - 9 PMSindy & Steve's AirBnB in Sacramento, CA Email SindysPigeonService@gmail.com for details & to RSVP
Join us the afternoon/evening before the Pigeon Appreciation Day Demonstration to prepare, create signs and strategize.
PROTESTING FOR PIGEON PROTECTIONS
By Cynthia Harris
National Pigeon Appreciation Day is 6/13/23. It is believed this date was chosen to honor pigeons as the date on which the famous pigeon, Cher Ami, died in 1919. Cher Ami helped save the lives of 194 soldiers in WWI. Of course, pigeons, throughout history, have helped mankind in thousands of other significant ways, not just as messengers in both World Wars.
This year, on Pigeon Appreciation Day, I am organizing a protest at the Capital in Sacramento, California to remind people why pigeons deserve our appreciation and to bring awareness to the fact that pigeons are intelligent, sensitive birds, who deserve the same care and respect as other more “popular” species. I know you all are aware how pigeons are maligned and mistreated today, and how there are essentially no federal or state laws that protect them against mistreatment.
We all want to change that. To my mind, this is the year to be an activist. Hence, the protest on 6/13/23. Flamingo, the fledgling King pigeon dyed pink for a “gender reveal” party in New York City, got an amazing amount of press, particularly after Flamingo died. The Wild Bird Fund in NYC did a sensational job getting the NY Times to run an article about Flamingo and why domesticated pigeons should never be released (or dyed). We can, and must, build on that momentum.
I have obtained a permit at the California Capital for our protest in Sacramento on 6/13/23. The protest will be from 9 am to 1 pm. I will have tables and signs set up in our permitted location, so anyone attending will be able to find our spot without trouble. Our spot is ideal. It is a grassy area. And, due to the construction all around the Capital, it is also the only pathway state legislators use to get to their offices. 6/13 is a Tuesday, a working day.
Steve and I have also rented an AirBnB for the afternoon and evening before. (6/12/23) The AirBnB is located in West Sacramento in walking distance to the Capital. This location will be our spot to gather together the afternoon and evening before the protest to make our signs and get fired up for the next morning’s protest. Your pigeons are allowed at the AirBnB.
On the day of the protest, our pigeons can also attend. There are strict rules about clean up after any protest. Pigeons must be safely restrained either in their carriers and/or wearing pigeon pants and leashes for their protection and ease of clean up.
If any one of you is thinking – “protesting is really not my thing” – I want to remind you that animal activists were able to get greyhound racing completely banned in this country. It took a long time, but it got done. Many of us have spent years in rescue and rehab and done tons of education and advocacy for domesticated pigeons. The groundwork has been laid. Let’s take it to the next level on 6/13/23!
Please RSVP to either:
Cynthia Harris (Sindy) at sindyspigeonservice@gmail.com, or
Elizabeth Young at Elizabeth@pigeonrescue.orgThere are rooms in the AirBnB available. Please let me know if you wish to be considered for one.
- Tue13Jun2023
Pigeon Appreciation Day Demonstration for Pigeon Protections
9 AM to 1 PMWe'll have a booth on the front lawn of the California State Capitol Building (Soutwest Corner), 1315 10th St. Sacramento CA
Releasing domestic pigeons to wild skies is cruel & needs to be banned. Come demonstrate with us to end these inhumane practices.
- Wed12Jul2023
Major Donations Bonus Match!
6 AM till Bonus Match Funds Run OutOnly online at GlobalGiving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Early moring on Wednesday 7/12 at 6 AM PT, donations of $100 to $1000 made to Palomacy through GlobalGiving will earn a sliding scale 30-50% Bonus Match until funds run out (possibly in the first hour). Please mark your calendar & set your alarm!
You can see our progress on the leaderboard.
- Sat15Jul2023
Palomacy @ SF STEM Saturday
11-4953 De Haro Street, Potrero Hill, San Francisco CA
Come meet Palomacy pigeons & people at The Potrero Hill STEM Festival this Saturday from 11am-4pm! #stemsaturdaySF is a free, OUTDOOR block-party at The Potrero Hill Neighborhood House! There will be food and drink for purchase and an open-air, outdoor STEM corridor with hands-on activities, demos and fun local resources, including us! - Sat26Aug2023
Palomacy @ Berkeley Humane Bark & Meow (& Coo) Around the Block
10 AM - 4 PM2700 NINTH at CARLETON STREETS, BERKELEY, CA
Come out and meet lots of beautiful, amazing, charming & adoptable domestic (unreleasable) pigeons & doves at Berkeley Humane’s Bark (& Meow & Coo) Around the Block Adopt-a-thon & Street Fair! Volunteers needed! Please contact Elizabeth to help! More details about the event here.
- Sun10Sep2023
Palomacy @ The Solano Stroll
10 AM - 5 PMWe'll Be at 1695 Solano Avenue (Between Tulare & Ventura Avenues), Albany CA
Be a part of our Pigeon Diplomacy Team! This is one of our biggest events! We need volunteers & birds, for all or part of the day. It’s fun! Please RSVP here. (Check out our photo album and see the event website.)
The Solano Stroll is back! An annual street fair held every September, a week after Labor Day, on the Solano Avenue shopping district of Albany and Berkeley, California stretching close to 2 miles long and bringing between 250,000 and 300,000 attendees in a single day, it has been called the oldest and largest street festival in the San Francisco Bay Area and the “world’s biggest block party”!
Solano Stroll through Berkeley & Albany
Over five hundred vendors, non-profit organizations, food booths and entertainers. Begins at 10 am with the opening of Solano Avenue businesses and Stroll booths and you can visit one of 50 entertainers, 50 food booths, 150 juried arts and crafters, state of the art mechanical rides, and 150 community non-profit and government organizations, not to mention the unique and popular professional services, restaurants, and shops already here on Solano Avenue. You will hear the best in local music, dance and other performances and absolutely stunning costumes from all over the globe! This is a family event featuring a special area set aside just for kids that offer giant slides, carnival games, clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers, face painters, magicians and more!
- Sun17Sep2023Fri22Sep2023
Little by Little Bonus Match!
9 PM PT - 9 PM PTOnline at Global Giving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
SPECIAL BONUS MATCH OPPORTUNITY! Your donation up to $100 will be matched with 125% bonus money! Together we are helping each other to help the pigeons & doves who too often are turned away or overlooked. Little by little, we are making a big difference! Starting at 9 PM PT on Sunday, 9/17, donations up to $100 to Palomacy via @globalgiving will be 125% matched! (Limit $100, 1/donor) The campaign ends Friday 9/22 at 9 PM PT.
If you donate $100, the birds get $225 thanks to special bonus match fund by board member, volunteer, adopter & super hero Aileen “Ellie” Paterson! Please & thank you! Watch our progress on the leaderboard.
- Sat23Sep2023
Palomacy @ the Sonoma County VegFest
10AM - 3PM
We hope everyone is getting excited and planning to attend the Sonoma County VegFest on Saturday, September 23! They have lots of new exciting food vendors, the kids’ area is back, music, an insta-prize wheel to spin, full line up of speakers and cooking demos, it’s gonna be an awesome year! Don’t miss it! Get your tickets today (tickets are also available at the entrance): https://
compassionate-living. networkforgood.com/events/ 57573-sonoma-county-vegfest- 2023 We need volunteers & birds, for all or part of the day. It’s fun! Please RSVP here.
The Sonoma County VegFest was conceived by a small group of compassionate SoCo vegans that wanted to share with their beloved county how wonderful living free of animal products can be. The VegFest will bring together vendors, natural foods stores, restaurants, nutritionists, professional cooks, and other knowledgeable people — including Palomacy volunteers with pigeons in pants! — to share their expertise with us. Come and learn, eat, share and have fun!
For more information, visit the VegFest website.
- Sat23Sep2023
Palomacy @ Pet Food Express
11-32531 Fair Oaks Blvd. (Loehmann's Plaza) Sacramento CA
COME MEET PIGEONS & DOVES & get your Palomacy on! (Saturday & Sunday)
- Sun24Sep2023
Palomacy @ Pet Food Express
11-32531 Fair Oaks Blvd. (Loehmann's Plaza) Sacramento CA
COME MEET PIGEONS & DOVES & get your Palomacy on! (Saturday & Sunday)
- Sun01Oct2023
Palomacy @ Family Fall Festival
12 Noon - 4 PMStirling Park Drive & Rod Beaudry Drive near the entrance of River Bend Park, Sacramento.
Palomacy will be at the Fall Family Fest this Sunday. If you live near Sacramento, come say Hi!
12pm to 4pm at Stirling Park Drive & Rod Beaudry Drive near the entrance of River Bend Park, Sacramento.
- Sun08Oct2023
Palomacy @ NatureFest 2022!
10 AM - 3 PMThe Nature Center is located inside Ancil Hoffman Park 2850 San Lorenzo Way (off Tarshes Drive) Carmichael CA 95608
Come see Palomacy at Naturefest!
The most popular community event: NatureFest is back! This family-friendly event includes live animal presentations, hands-on activities, demonstrations, guided hikes and educational exhibits. NatureFest draws more than 1,000 attendees, including nature enthusiast, families, scout groups and other youth organizations. Promoting science & nature education and safe outdoor recreation, NatureFest is an excellent opportunity for local businesses and organizations to interact with our community.
Meet Palomacy Care Director & Legend Jill McMurchy!
- Sun08Oct2023
Palomacy IN STORE at San Jose Pet Food Express!
11 AM - 2:30 PM5148 Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, CA 95129
We’re back! COME MEET PIGEONS & get your Palomacy on!
- Sun15Oct2023
Palomacy @ Berkeley Bird Festival
12 Noon - 5 PMTabling in the Green outside The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California, Campanile Way, Berkeley CA 94720
Come out & meet Palomacy people- human & avian!
- Sun22Oct2023
Palomacy Party: Feathers & Fashion, Celebrating Cooture!
3 - 6 PMSan Damiano Retreat
710 Highland Drive, Danville, CA 94526
Get ready to strut your stuff at Feathers & Fashion: Celebrating Cooture, a Haute Cooture event celebrating our fabulous feathered friends! RSVP
WHO’S HOT IN FASHION RIGHT NOW?
PIGEONS & DOVES
WHAT’S HOT IN FASHION RIGHT NOW?
PIGEON PANTS
DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO MEET AND MINGLE WITH FALL’S MOST INFLUENTIAL FASHION ICON — THE PIGEON.
PALOMACY’S 2023 CELEBRATION
SUNDAY 10/22/23
3 TO 6 PM
SAN DAMIANO RETREAT
710 HIGHLAND DRIVE DANVILLE CA
THIS YEAR’S EVENT WILL BE UNFORGETTABLE AND ANYBIRDY WHO’S ANYBIRDY WILL BE THERE.
PLEASE RSVP. SUGGESTED DONATION $25 PER PERSON, $40 FOR TWO
- Sat04Nov2023
Palomacy @ Animal Care Faire
11 AM - 3 PMBradshaw Animal Shelter, 3839 Bradshaw Rd, Sacramento CA
Come get your pigeon and dove love with Palomacy’s amazing people- human and avian- at the Bradshaw Animal Shelter’s 2nd annual Roy C. Marcum Animal Care Faire! Want to volunteer? Please email Jill@pigeonrescue.org
- Sun19Nov2023
Palomacy IN STORE at San Jose Pet Food Express!
11 AM - 2:30 PM5148 Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, CA 95129We’re back! COME MEET PIGEONS & get your Palomacy on!
- Sun19Nov2023
Palomacy @ The New Farm SF
12-410 Cargo Way, San Francisco CA
Come out & meet Palomacy people- human & avian- for one of the last outreeaches of the year! Want to volunteer? Please Email Elizabeth@pigeonrescue.org
- Tue28Nov2023
GivingTuesday Bonus Event!
9 PM PT 11/28 - 9 PM PT 11/29
All donations made to Palomacy here during GivingTuesday (up to $2500) will earn bonus match funds!
For 24 hours (9 PM PT 11/28 – 9 PM PT 11/29) GlobalGiving, in recognition of GivingTuesday, is awarding $1,200,000 in bonus money to projects like ours. The more you give, the more they’ll match.
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving celebrated by nonprofits, corporations, and donors alike. As a founding partner of #GivingTuesday, GlobalGiving has championed this day of fundraising since its inception in 2012 to help our nonprofit community make the most of every giving season!
Please donate here 9 PM PT Monday 11/27 – 9 PM PT Tuesday 11/28
- Sun03Dec2023
Palomacy IN STORE at San Jose Pet Food Express!
11 AM - 2:30 PM5148 Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, CA 95129
We’re back! COME MEET PIGEONS & get your Palomacy on!
- Sun17Dec2023
Palomacy CANCELED @ The New Farm SF
12-4
Come out & meet Palomacy people- human & avian- for one of the last outreaches of the year! Want to volunteer? Please Email Elizabeth@pigeonrescue.org