Elizabeth the Pigeon

I received this email on 1/4 from Naomi, a member of the SFACC shelter team:

Elizabeth,

I was walking from my car to home last night when I saw the pigeon. The pigeon first ran onto Dolores Street, right in front of cars. The cars were able to stop in time. It took awhile to catch including several short flight across part of Dolores Street to the median. This bird does have a yellow band on its left leg with "#25".

When I went to SFACC on 1/7 to check on this and two other pigeons (baby kings found huddled under a car on New Year's Eve and named Valiant & Vivian by their rescuer), I discovered that the pigeon had been named Elizabeth by SFACC Super Volunteer Tracey (my volunteer mentor when I started 4 years ago).

It was the baby pigeons that urgently needed fostering and we were very fortunate that MickaCoo volunteer Janelle could offer them the indoor, supportive care and treatment they needed.

And, even though she was an adult and healthy bird, it seemed pretty mean to leave poor Elizabeth at the shelter alone. I brought her (fingers crossed) home to foster in my aviary.

She was a little shy at first.

And she is in fact a "she" (though for a short time I thought she might be a Fred rather than an Elizabeth).

She had two serious suitors- the young and flightless Pancho and the big, impressive grown man bird Milkshake Mike.

Hen's choose and she went with young Pancho which makes her a MickaCoogar.

She hasn't laid eggs yet but she and Pancho are honeymooning and working on their nest and soon I'll need to replace real eggs with fakes.

Elizabeth & Pancho are a beautiful king pigeon couple and they need a forever home. To adopt, please complete our online application and please- until there are homes for all of them, don't breed, don't buy- adopt!