Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions here to share our wonderful news from & profound gratitude to Craig Newmark Philanthropies for generously supporting our work once again with a $20K grant!

Thank you, Craig!

HERO!

Why you ask? Here’s an expert from a Mollie Leavitt interview with Craig.

And Palomacy, as have so many other organizations, has been profoundly helped by Craig ever since we met in 2013.

Hatched in 2007, Palomacy was created to close a deadly gap in animal care. We are saving the lives of the otherwise unserved: domestic, unreleasable pigeons and doves that are injured, lost, displaced, and abandoned in their use for sports, businesses, and hobbies.

What initially began in 2007 as one person stepping in to help birds that no one else was, has, with Craig’s generous support since 2013, grown into a model rescue powered by two full time staff and 150ish volunteers (locally, nationally & internationally). Back then, the only information about pigeons was either from breeders detailing how to exploit them or “pest management” businesses advertising to kill them as vectors of disease (which they are not). Even wildlife experts were often unaware that releasing domestic pigeons and doves was a death sentence. Shelters and rescues never even thought of them as adoptable (despite their being amazing pets).

When we started this work, we had to create a word for it because it wasn’t being done: Palomacy. It means pigeon diplomacy. The domestic pigeons and doves, inevitably lost and hurt, just quietly suffered, and died, ignored by passersby for (unnecessary) fear of disease, turned away by wildlife rehabbers as unreleasable and by shelters who considered them unadoptable.

We chose the name Palomacy because we knew the birds needed not just a rescue but a movement, they needed pigeon diplomacy. Thanks to the incredibly generous support of our favorite bird nerd Craig & thousands of other good souls, we are rescuing & rehoming thousands of birds that were used as if disposable. (They are not.)