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Thank You Craig Newmark Philanthropies! We are so excited to share with you the news that Craig Newmark Philanthropies has generously donated $5,000 to our sanctuary to help promote our pigeon rescue and education efforts! This award will enable us to provide important resources to our rescues for their care as well as educational support […]

Pigeons As Indoor Pets! Pigeons are super smart and a lot of fun! As one of the original domesticated birds, they adapt very well to home life and quickly make people fall in love with them. If you are looking into keeping a pigeon as a pet and want to know how to get started,

Dove Releases – Beautiful, Breathtaking, and Barbaric Facebook Instagram Pinterest This is Roberto. At just 3 weeks old, Roberto had been a victim of a dove release. When we were called about him, three white homing pigeons were reported and despite our extremely quick response time, two had already been killed by predators by the

Pigeon Racing From The Perspective Of A Lost Racing Pigeon Facebook Instagram Pinterest Pigeon Racing: Harley the Racing Pigeon’s Journey At just a couple of weeks old, Harley found herself severely injured and fighting for her life having been hurt on what was likely her first pigeon race. Harley suffered from 3 deep wounds which

Housing For Pigeons – How To Build An Outdoor Pigeon Aviary! Facebook Instagram Pinterest If you are thinking about rescuing a pigeon and keeping pigeons as pets, then probably one of the first things that popped into your head is housing for pigeons.  Pigeons are pretty easy keepers once you have the right setup and

Intelligence of a Duck Ducks Think Abstractally According to Smithsonian Magazine, “newborn mallards who were first exposed to two spheres (same), later chose to follow a pair or triangles (same) rather than a cube and a cuboid (different)…. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a non-human organism learning to discriminate between abstract relational

Intelligence of a Turkey Recognition of Geography Turkeys have the ability to recognize over 1,000 acres of land through its geographic content. Much better than I can do – quite impressive for sure! (1) Socializing Turkeys create lasting friendships with one another much like how people create social groups. They are known to be very

Bachelor Flocks 101 What is a Bachelor Flock? A bachelor flock is a group of roosters happily coexisting with one another in a dedicated living space. These are great for people with too many roosters for their number of hens or individuals looking to rescue roosters. What are the Requirements? For it to be successful,

Sexing Pigeons Sexing pigeons isn’t as easy as it seems. Although the only true way to tell the sex is by DNA testing, behavior can help tell a lot. Below we have some options for sexing your pigeon. Nesting Behavior If you have a bonded pair, you may have noticed that one pigeon nests more

Sexing Ducks Using the Curl Feather Male ducks at around 16-18 weeks develop a drake curl tail feather. If you have older ducks, this is a dead giveaway that you have a male as females will not develop this. Note: Muscovies will not develop this. Coloration of the Duck Many species of male ducks develop