Alameda, CA:

Join our amazing team of weekly volunteers at the Ploughshares Nursery in Alameda, a 16’ x 8’ aviary that houses 30 pigeons in foster care. Each volunteer visits the aviary for one shift per week (for 1 to 4 hours depending on your preference) to:

• • Sweep, scrape and hose down the floor
  • Change out water tubs
  • Change newspaper in nest boxes
  • Look for real eggs and swap for fakes (feggs)
  • Add new food
  • Socialize with the birds and take photos/videos to share

This is a great way to interact with pigeons and is a vital component of our work. As we grow, we hope to include more aviaries and our need for volunteers will keep expanding. (Learn all about it)

Frequency: Commit to one shift per week

Skills needed: Dependable, love to clean, no bird experience required (we train)

Location: Currently Alameda, CA  (with potential for Martinez, Fairfield, and Napa. Scroll down for San Jose)

Want to do this? Please complete our application and we’ll connect to discuss the possibilities.

San Jose, CA:

Do you live in the South Bay? Love doves? We are currently signing up volunteers to maintain our dove aviary at Andy’s Pet Shop! Andy’s is an amazing, rescue-only shop at 429 S Bascom Avenue in San Jose. We need volunteers to sign up for one shift per week to:

• • Sweep and scrape floor and perches
  • Change out water tubs
  • Add new food
  • Socialize with the birds and take photos/videos to share

This is a great way to interact with doves, socializing them to help them get adopted, and is a vital component of our work. As we grow, we hope to include more aviaries and our need for volunteers will keep expanding.

Frequency: Commit to one shift per week

Skills needed: Dependable, love to clean, no bird experience required (we train)

Location: San Jose, CA

Want to do this? Please complete our application and we’ll connect to discuss the possibilities.