2017
- Thu05Jan2017
National Bird Day
Palomacy Supports & Celebrates National Bird Day!Get & send virtual Bird Day Postcards!
Why National Bird Day?
- The beauty, songs, and flight of birds have long been sources of human inspiration.
- Today, nearly 12 percent of the world’s 9,800 bird species may face extinction within the next century, including nearly one-third of the world’s 330 parrot species.
- Birds are sentinel species whose plight serves as barometer of ecosystem health and alert system for detecting global environmental ills.
- Many of the world’s parrots and songbirds are threatened with extinction due to pressures from the illegal pet trade, disease, and habitat loss.
- Public awareness and education about the physical and behavioral needs of birds can go far in improving the welfare of the millions of birds kept in captivity.
- The survival and well-being of the world’s birds depends upon public education and support for conservation.
Why January 5?
National Bird Day is on January 5 each year, as it’s scheduled to coincide with the end of the annual Christmas Bird Count. The Christmas Bird Count has been going on for more than a decade. It lasts three weeks and is the longest running citizen science survey in the world that helps to monitor the health of our nation’s birds. Birders and the public go out and count as many birds as they can see during the count.
The reason National Bird Day falls on January 5 is that, for three weeks, the country is focused on native birds and wild populations. Once that period ends, we begin to focus on captive birds (who mainly consist of bird species that are native to other countries, but who are kept in captivity in the U.S.). January 5 is the new beginning for captive birds!
- Sat21Jan2017Sun22Jan2017
- Sun29Jan2017
Palomacy @ Mickaboo Adoption Fair & Bird Care Classes, Carmichael
11am - 4pmCarmichael Public Library
5605 Marconi Avenue
Carmichael, CA
Come meet lots of adoptable birds- parrots, pigeons & doves!
Mickaboo’s adoption fair features foster birds available for adoption and volunteers from Mickaboo and Palomacy. Mickaboo’s free bird care class will be offered. Learn about birds and buy bird care supplies. Meet pigeons in pants! We’d love to see you! Contact Elizabeth for more info.
- Sat04Feb2017
Palomacy @ CuriOdyssey Give Animals a Second Chance
10 am - 3 pmCuriOdyssey |1651 Coyote Point Dr. |San Mateo, CA 94401
Join Palomacy and lots of wonderful animal rescues at CuriOdyessey for this fun and fantastic event! We’ll be the ones with pigeons in pants! Contact Elizabeth if you’d like to help out! - Mon27Feb2017
Friends of SFACC Partner Grants Reception
6:30 PM - 8 PMSports Basement 1590 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94103
Every year Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control awards grants to deserving rescue partners, who help SFACC by taking animals that
might not be adoptable from the shelter.Palomacy has been awarded a 2017 Friends of San Francisco Animal Care & Control Rescue Partner Grant.
Please join us for a reception to receive your grant, and mingle with fellow amazing and dedicated rescue folks. SFACC Staff and Friends Board Members will also be in attendance to thank you personally for the great work you do. Contact Elizabeth if you’d like to join us!
What: Award rescue partner grants, and celebrate the great work our rescue partners do!
When: Monday, February 27 from 6:30-8 PM
Where: Sports Basement 1590 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (light refreshments will be provided)
Bonus: After the reception, enjoy a 15% discounted shopping spree in the Sports Basement store until closing (9pm).
- Fri03Mar2017
Celebrate World Wildlife Day
Celebrate wildlife and support Palomacy's work on behalf of the birds
World Wildlife Day was established by the United Nations to increase the world’s appreciation for all wild flora and fauna and to raise awareness of the many benefits of nature conservation.
Palomacy is pigeon diplomacy and we help not only the domestic pigeons and doves but also the wild pigeons that so need kindess and respect. Elizabeth calls it “trickle up compassion” and every day works to mobilize life-saving, culture-changing rescues for birds in trouble.
- Sat11Mar2017Sun12Mar2017
Palomacy @ Amazing Pet Expo
10 AM - 5 PMIndoors Booth #516 Gateway Hall, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds
Tully Road, San Jose, CA, United States
BIG EVENT!!! YOUR HELP NEEDED! (Please email Elizabeth to participate!) Or just come and meet some beautiful birds!
The Bay Area Pet Expo is coming to the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds and Palomacy will be there! This is the only event we invest money for a booth – because there are 10,000 + attendees and LOTS of potential exposure. ADMISSION IS FREE
Each Pet Expo is uniquely structured to create an indoor PLAY, LEARN, SHOP AND ADOPT environment suitable for every type of pet lover! From dogs to cats, ferrets to lizards, birds to horses, snakes to pigs, there is literally something for everybody.
6th Annual Bay Area Pet Expo™
Saturday, March 11, 2017 10AM to 5PM Sunday, March 12, 2017 11AM to 4PM Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Free Admission Bring Your Pet!
- Sat11Mar2017
UPC's Conscious Eating Conference 2016
9AM - 6PMDavid Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Near the UC Berkeley Campus
Palomacy will be tabling on behalf of squab and in support of all. United Poultry Concerns’ Conscious Eating Conference brings expert speakers to Berkeley, California Saturday March 11th to explore the ethics of eating and the effect that each food choice has, and why it matters.
Don’t miss this exciting day of information exchange and advocacy support!
- Sat25Mar2017
Palomacy @ The 2017 Spring Plant Exchange
12-44500 Lincoln Ave, Oakland CA
Palomacy will be at the Oakland 2017 Spring Plant Exchange introducing pigeons and doves as pets! (Volunteer ambassadors needed! Please contact Elizabeth to help out. Newbies welcome!) Held rain or shine, join hundreds of your neighbors and fellow plant enthusiasts for the great semi-annual Oalkand tradition. Bring seeds, seedlings, cuttings, plant divisions, bulbs… Go home with bird netting, pots gardening books, bulbs, seedllings, a fist full of mystery succulents, a tree maybe… Get some advice, make some friends, grab a bite and enjoy the music. Go to www.theplantexchange.com for more information
- Mon03Apr2017
Little by Little Bonus Match!
6 AM - 9 PM PTOnline at Global Giving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Little by Little! Please mark your calendars & set your alarm clocks for the first GlobalGiving Bonus Match of 2017! Starting at 6 AM PT Monday, April 3rd donations made to Palomacy through GlobalGiving up to $50 will earn a 50% Bonus Match while funds last. Thank you!
- Sat15Apr2017
Palomacy @ Earth Day 2016 Oakland Zoo
10AM - 3PM9777 Golf Links Road
(off Highway 580)
Oakland, CA
Palomacy volunteers will bring pigeons and doves for you to meet and answer all your questions about these sweet, smart, amazing birds. Plus- there will be pigeons in pants! (We need helpers- please volunteer with us!)
- Sat22Apr2017
Palomacy @ UC Davis Picnic Day!
10AM - 4PMHutchison Field (between La Rue Road & Dairy Road)
UC Davis
We love participating in this BIG fun event at UC Davis! There will be 100K visitors! Please help make LOTS of new friends for pigeons & doves! (Volunteer ambassadors needed! Please contact Elizabeth to help out. Newbies welcome!)
- Wed26Apr2017
Palomacy @ ASPCA Paws for Celebration
10-1South Lawn Steps of the State Capitol (Near N & 11th Streets) Sacramento, CA 95814
We have a great time meeting leaders and raising awareness and inspiring compassion for the pigeons and doves and are looking forward to being at the State Capitol. If you’re in the area, please come and meet pigeons in pants. We can help answer all your questions about pigeons- those bird we see so often but that so many misunderstand. (See photos & our TV interview from 2014 here.) (Volunteer ambassadors needed! Please contact Elizabeth to help out. Newbies welcome!)
- Sat13May2017
Palomacy Pigeon Flock Care
1 - 3 PMPalomacy Aviary at Ploughshares Nursery 2701 Main St. Alameda, CA 94501
Come join us this Saturday while we catch, weigh, worm & spray our flock of foster pigeons. (Preventative health care that we recommend every one do at least twice a year.) You can come help, learn and/or bring your own pigeons for a free treatment. Please RSVP here.
- Sat20May2017
Palomacy @ Mickaboo Adoption Fair & Bird Care Class
11 - 2:30 & Free Bird Care Class 3 - 5Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch LibraryBlanchard Community Room
315 East 14th Street
Davis, CA 95616
Come meet lots of beautiful adoptable birds! Everybirdy from parrots to pigeons! #AdoptDontShop
- Sat20May2017
WingDing Family Festival a Celebration of Spring and All Things Winged!
10AM-3PMSkyline Ridge Open Space Preserve (north entrance - approx 1 mile south of the Page Mill/Alpine Rd/Skyline Blvd junction) DIRECTIONS
A springtime celebration of all things winged! Join Palomacy and meet pigeons in pants! (We need volunteer helpers!) The Wingding Family Fest is a community event celebrating the spring and all things winged and all things bird-y. We offer bird and nature hikes, a bird cache walk, bird arts and crafts, bird games, and bird science to event attendees in a fun format. The event is free though parking is limited. DIRECTIONS
- Tue13Jun2017
Pigeon Appreciation Day!
We appreciate pigeons every day- for their gentleness, their loyalty, their courage. Let’s share our love of these birds with everybody on Pigeon Appreciation Day 2016! Artists are invited to share your Pigeon Appreciation imagery & graphics with us and we will help others to share them far and wide. See our 2016 gallery! Pigeons are the angels among us and they deserve a lot more appreciation than they get! You can make a donation in support of pigeon rescue here.
- Wed12Jul2017
Bonus Match GlobalGiving Donations Earn +50%!
6 AM - 10 AM PSTOnly Online at GlobalGiving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Starting at 6 AM PT on Wednesday 7/12, donations made to Palomacy through GlobalGiving will earn a +50% Bonus Match (!!!) until funds run out (usually before 10 AM). Please mark your calendar!
This Bonus Day, GlobalGiving is matching donations up to $1,000 per donor at 50%! They’re offering a $1,000 bonus award for the project with most individual donors and another for the most money raised. Matching begins at 6 am PST and lasts until funds run out (which happens early)!
- Sat15Jul2017
East Bay SPCA Adoptathon
10AM - 2PMJack London Square
Oakland, CA
The East Bay SPCA Adoptathon is coming up soon and Palomacy will be there with pigeons in pants! Please join us as a volunteer or stop by to say Hello! Join us Saturday, July 15th from 10 am – 2 pm in Jack London Square for the East Bay SPCA’s annual Adopt-a-thon!!! This adopt-a-thon and pet fair will feature more than 350 adoptable animals including cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, and reptiles!
Not looking to adopt? That’s okay! We also encourage members of the public to:
-Browse vendor booths
-Watch canine demonstrations
-Bring their dog for a $10 microchip
-Sign up to foster
-Bring your kids down for activities and fun! - Sat22Jul2017
Palomacy @ March to Close All Slaughterhouses
10-2Union Square
333 Post Street, San Francisco, California 94108
Did you know that 1,000,000 baby pigeons are butchered every year in California alone for someone’s squab dinner? Please join Palomacy tabling & marching at the March to Close All Slaughterhouses in San Francisco.
There are coordinated events all over the world and the main organizers, Toronto MTCAS, encourage this to be a coming together of citizens and groups, and not branded under a specific organization. The goal is to have every major animal rights group involved so that we can set the stage for an annual event where all vegans come together to speak up for animals. Participating groups include Vegan Outreach, The Humane League, PETA, United Poultry Concerns, Compassionate Living, DxE, Happy Hen Sanctuary and more. The last coalition event was attended by 200 people. They are aiming for 2,000 at this event. Please contact Elizabeth to join us or just come!
- Sun23Jul2017
Palomacy @ Fly Away Home Bird Adoption
11-3Marin Humane Society
171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. Novato, CA 94949
Birds make amazing pets and there are many eager to meet you! Please join Palomacy, Mickaboo & the Marin Humane Society for their first ever Bird Adoption Fair! We will be there with doves & pigeons in pants! Want to volunteer? Please contact Elizabeth.
- Sat29Jul2017
Palomacy @ Mickaboo Adoption Fair & Bird Care Class
11-4Carmichael Regional Library
5605 Marconi Ave, Carmichael CA
Bird Lovers Don’t Want to Miss This! Palomacy will be there with doves & pigeons in pants! Meet birds! Learn cool stuff! Bird nerd out! Want to volunteer? Please contact Elizabeth.
- Sun06Aug2017
Nihonmachi Street Fair
11AM - 5PMPost & Buchanan in Japantown San Francisco, California
Join us! Come out & meet pigeons in pants & learn all about Palomacy! We need volunteers & birds too, for all or part of the day. It’s fun! Please RSVP here.
Join us at this summer’s San Francisco Nihonmachi Street Fair, Sunday, August 6th in SF’s Japantown (Post & Buchanan). The festival and outreach event will have a “Doggie World” area featuring local pet rescue agencies, pet care resources, and vendors.
The festival attracts thousands of people over two days and is heavily advertised…on MUNI buses and MUNI kiosks throughout the City, on radio, and on digital ads at SFO International Airport. It’s a great opportunity to introduce the joys of pigeons to a large number of people. You can read more about the festival on its website: http://www.
nihonmachistreetfair.org. - Sat12Aug2017
Palomacy @ the Sonoma County VegFest
10AM - 5PMLuther Burbank Center for the Arts (formally known as the Wells Fargo Center) 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, CA.
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.
- Sat19Aug2017
Palomacy @ Berkeley Humane Bark (& Meow) Around the Block
9 AM - 4 PMNINTH AND CARLETON STREETS, BERKELEY, CA
Come out and meet lots of beautiful, amazing, charming & adoptable domestic (unreleasable) pigeons & doves at the 4th Annual Berkeley Humane Bark (& Meow) Around the Block Adopt-a-thon & Street Fair! Volunteers needed! Please contact Elizabeth to help! More details about the event here.
- Sat26Aug2017
Kensington Animal Fair
11AM - 2PMCommunity Center
59 Arlington Ave
Kensington, CA
All Creatures Great & Small- Blessing of the Animals. The day will include demonstrations by Hazel Weiss and her service dog, K-9 Police Dogs, dog training, Friends of the Library, Dog Scouts of America, and a raffle. At 12 noon Pastor Tony Clark, M.Div., D.V.M., will offer a blessing of the animals for pets and owners. We’ll have homeless cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, and birds needing adoption or fostering. Contra Costa County Animal Care and Control will provide low cost inoculations, micro-chipping, and registration with amnesty. Their veterinarian will talk with you about the best health care for your pet. Our local Girl and Boy Scouts will be selling snacks and beverages.
- Sat09Sep2017
Palomacy @ Ploughshares Nursery Harvest Festival & Sale!
12-5Ploughshares Nursery, 2701 Main Street
Alameda, CA 94501
Palomacy volunteers will be on hand to introduce you to the wonders of rescued pigeons as pets! Learn all about them, meet the birds & learn about how to create a safe & beautiful aviary of your own!
- Sun10Sep2017
Palomacy @ The Solano Stroll
10 AM - 5 PMWe will be with Berkeley Animal Care Services on Solano Avenue between Pomona Ave & Key Route Blvd in 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 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 the kick-off is the theme parade with about 100 groups. After the parade, 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!
- Sat16Sep2017Sun17Sep2017
Palomacy @ Bay Area Pet Fair
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Alameda Fairgrounds
4501 Pleasanton Ave, Pleasanton, CA 94566
The Bay Area Pet Fair, sponsored by our special friends Pet Food Express, is a two-day adoption event packed with activities and resources for pets and their people, with a special focus on adoption and rescue of pets. The event includes more than 100 exhibitors (including Palomacy!) offering products, services and resources for all types of indoor pets– dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs and more! Parking and admission are free!
We need volunteers for this event; please contact us if you can help out!
- Sat16Sep2017
Palomacy @ Drake's Brewing Company Launch of War Pigeon IPA
11:30-4Drake Brewing Company 1933 Davis Street, San Leandro, CA
In honor of their newest beer, War Pigeon IPA, Drake’s Brewing Company has invited Palomacy to join them (with our pigeons in pants, some in lederhosen!) to help make sure their guests get to know who pigeons really are. Christiana will be our lead volunteer & she needs some helpers! Contact Elizabeth with questions or to RSVP.
- Sat16Sep2017
Palomacy at For Other Living Things!
11AM - 2PM1261 South Mary Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
408-739-6785
For Other Living Things is a pet shop that’s friendly to critters, people, and the earth. Palomacy will be there with rescued pigeons & doves in pants! Come and visit or volunteer with us! Meet and learn all about these amazing birds! Contact Elizabeth to RSVP.
- Sat23Sep2017
Palomacy @ Animal Fest
11 AM - 3 PMChrist the Lord Episcopal Church
592 Tennent Avenue
Pinole, California
Chinchillas! Rabbits! Reptiles! Dogs! Parrots! Cats! Wildlife Ambassadors! Chickens! Pigeons in Pants!
This is a wonderful, fun event! Easy parking, lots of cool exhibits and presentations and you’ll meet some pigeons in pants!
Animal Fest seeks to facilitate interaction with animals, educate our community and neighbors about respecting and protecting wildlife, to increase appreciation of and respect for animals in our community, facilitate improved lives and outcomes for animals in our community and to facilitate adoption of animals.
We need volunteers & birds, for all or part of the day. It’s fun! Please RSVP here.
- Sun24Sep2017
Palomacy @ Talons: The Hungry Owl Celebration
12-4The Marin Art & Garden Center 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross CA
Palomacy will be representing for the pigeons & doves! Please join us in supporting the Hungry Owl Project. Contact Elizabeth to volunteer.
- Sun01Oct2017
Palomacy @ SFACC Pet Pride Day!
12 - 5NEW LOCATION: 1200 15TH ST. SF CA (SFACC)
Palomacy will be bringing the pigeons in pants & doves in drawers to join the San Francisco Animal Care & Control in celebration of the fluffiest-tail-wagging-
feathered-scaled-finned citizens in San Francisco and the people that love them. Come visit Palomacy or join us as a volunteer. - Thu05Oct2017
Palomacy @ Rocket Dog Rescue's Bummer's Ball
7-10 PMThe San Francisco Armory 1800 Mission St. at 14th 
We’ll be bringing the Palomacy to BUMMER’S BALL, a FUNDRAISER for ROCKET DOG RESCUE that pays pooch homage to Bummer and Lazarus, beloved 1800’s San Francisco strays.
EMMYLOU HARRIS, Grammy-winning artist and fellow dog rescuer will wag tails as she croons for canine compassion! Top dog admission to the historic San Francisco Armory will make you hound-happy with no bones to pick after sampling our plant-perfected people treats
- Sat21Oct2017
FLOCKTOBERFEST!
5 - 9 PMCommunity Room, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA 1450 Rollins Road, Burlingame, CA 94010
Palomacy Party!
Join us to celebrate ten years of unique, culture-changing, life-saving pigeon & dove rescue!
Great Company- Volunteers, Adopters, Experts, Newbies, Birds!
Amazing Vegan Food, Craft Beer, Champagne!
Music, Art, Prizes & Pigeons in Pants!
Please RSVP! Want to help out? Please contact Elizabeth.
- Sat25Nov2017
Palomacy at For Other Living Things!
11AM - 2PM1261 South Mary Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
408-739-6785 For Other Living Things is a pet shop that’s friendly to critters, people, and the earth. Palomacy will be there with rescued pigeons & doves in pants! Come and visit or volunteer with us! Meet and learn all about these amazing birds! Contact Elizabeth to RSVP.
- Tue28Nov2017
Giving Tuesday!
You can support Palomacy from anywhere!
Please help the pigeons & doves on GivingTuesday!
Your support makes a life saving difference.
Make your GivingTuesday donation here.
Thank you!
- Sat02Dec2017
HOLIDAY PARTY FOR BIRD PEOPLE! (Palomacy @ Mickaboo Holiday Party)
5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Eagles Hall, 2305 Alameda Ave, Alameda, CA 94501
Join Palomacy & Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue! It’s a HOLIDAY PARTY FOR BIRD PEOPLE!
Featuring: silent auctions, raffles, homemade desserts, delicious buffet, good company and holiday cheer and MORE!
Cover Charge: $25/Adult, $40/Couple. (Proceeds benefit our host Mickaboo’s parrot rescue) Click here for info & to RSVP.
Want to Help with the Party? Good! We need you! Contact Elizabeth to sign up.
- Mon25Dec2017
Merry Christmas!
Art generously created for Palomacy by Meg Germundson
