Honoring Hero Heather Ho(lowski)

October 3, 2024 by Elizabeth

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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 birds! There are lots of superheroes in our flock, and then there are a few extra, extra-super volunteers who go even further above and beyond!

Inspired to up the matching fund amount? Email Elizabeth@pigeonrescue.org

A generous anonymous donor has pledged $5,000 towards a matching campaign to honor our hero Heather Hohlowski!

Between now and October 26th, our appreciative anonymous donor will 100% match every donation, up to a total of $5000, made to this link to honor Heather.

Whether you know Heather personally or not, if you know Palomacy, you have been supported by her many incredible contributions. (She has been with us from the very beginning, 17 years ago!) Do you love our logo? Heather created it! And our MickaCoo logo before that.

Is your heart warmed when volunteers foster abandoned pigeons waiting for their forever homes? When rescued birds are lovingly cared for every single day, fed and watered, their aviaries cleaned, their conditions monitored, their injuries treated and medications administered (not to mention the 65 miles each way trips to the vet!), and supported in every way all the way to their forever home? Heather has been doing all of that for years for her own fostered pigeons as well as a couple of years for our communal flock at Ploughshares aviary in Alameda. (And she created How to Welcome Pigeons Into Your Life AND our Ploughshares handbooks too.)

Do you appreciate having aviaries built to house birds in need? Heather has designed, funded, and/or built at least four that I can recall off the top of my head. And created this comprehensive guide for us: How We Built Our Aviary!

Heather does SO MUCH for the birds and people of Palomacy! She does outreach! She does graphic design and social media! She speaks out against pigeon racing with stories like A Pigeon’s Tale. Heather goes out to rescue birds in trouble, transports them to helpers, screens their potential adopters… and so much more! She paints custom portraits and donates the proceeds to support Palomacy! Heather is actually one of our most generous donors and she has kept us out of the red more times than I like to remember. Heather herself led a matching campaign to honor her best friend of 32 years Jim Stone.

Are you one of the many supporters who have ordered Palomacy calendars? Chances are, Heather packed, shipped and donated postage to get yours to you!

Or are you one of many fans in love with Palomacy’s 365 Page Bird-A-Day Desk calendars? HEATHER CREATED THEM! She researched, sourced, negotiated, designed, edited, produced and funded every page of every one!!! Heather’s incredible investment of so many hours, dollars, and brain cells has enabled Palomacy to share the beauty of pigeons and doves, to tell their stories and to delight our supporters around the world every day!