2020
Pipi
Found in December 2020 hurled up in a corner in Palma, severely underweight with advanced pneumonia. Sex unknown.
Kony left her hospitalized at the vet after finding her. She didn't survive the night.
Rest in peace.
2021
Poppy
Found in May 2021 at Plaza España, Palma, with a broken wing with signs of a cat bite, and full of parasites. Female.
Fully recovered. Learned to ring a bell to ask for sunflower seeds. Became Bell’s couple.
Currently living with us.
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Blanquita
Found in July 2021 on a street in Palma. Sex unknown. A car had hit it. Suffered from neurological trauma and non-stop seizures. Died a couple of days later.
Rest in peace.
Lancelot
Found in August 2021 at Plaza España, Palma. Had smallpox. Sex unknown. Survived a couple of days before smallpox spread into its lungs.
Rest in peace.
Taco
Found at the end of August 2021, underweight, dirty and jaded at Plaza España, Palma, near the entrance of a Taco Bell. Didn’t flee when approached. Suspected female.
Has a heart murmur and arrhythmia. Twists her neck convulsively in what looks like sequels of a paramyxovirus infection. Stopped being able to fly.
Currently living with us.
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Bell
Found in August 2021 as a squab at Plaza España, Palma, near the entrance of a Taco Bell. Underweight and ravaged with smallpox. Male.
Fully recovered. Became Poppy’s couple.
Currently living with us.
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2022
Piçon
Found by someone else in January 2022 as a squab at the side of a road, in shock and not moving. They brought him to us. Male.
Fully recovered. Became Chung Ha’s couple.
Released in an animal shelter in the countryside (August 2022).
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Chung Ha
Found in February 2022 at Plaza España, Palma, with a messed up foot. Tons of tangled-up strings cut her blood circulation. Female.
Two of her fingers had to be amputated. Became Piçon’s couple.
Later on broke a leg and punctured her breast, but she fully recovered.
Her poo looks and smells like diarrhea, but a vet analysis didn’t find anything wrong.
Released in an animal shelter in the countryside (August 2022).
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Pollo
Found in July 2022 at Plaza del Olivar, Palma, with a multiple fracture on one leg, first stages of smallpox, underweight and covered in poo. Not a squab, but very young. Male.
Didn’t recover the full mobility of the leg; walks limping. The tip of a finger necrotized and had to be amputated.
Released in an animal shelter in the countryside (November 2022).
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Cloro
A couple from Sometimes found this wood pigeon in their pool in September 2022. When taking it out, it didn’t move, so they called us. Sex unknown.
He was severely underweight and had swallowed a lot of pool water. Could not stand without falling. Started eating and drinking by himself a few days later. For a couple of weeks he looked like it was recovering properly, but we found him dead one morning.
Rest in peace.
Cecil
Wood pigeon found by someone else in October 2022 in Portals Nous. Couldn’t fly and had difficulty walking. Upset stomach, underweight, anemic, deadly amount of internal parasites. Sex unknown.
A few weeks in, he looked completely recovered except because he refused to eat by himself.
On mid-December, about 2 months after being rescued, his health quickly decayed in a single day and died during the night while hospitalized at the vet. The apparent cause was liver and kidney failure.
Rest in peace.
Maíz
Found by someone else in October 2022 in the middle of the road in a roundabout between Es Pont D’Inca and Marratxí. Wood pigeon squab. Couldn’t walk or fly, severely underweight, respiratory problems, liver damage, smallpox, paramyxovirus, joint inflammation, stunted legs, full of parasites. Sex unknown.
Started with partial blindness that developed into full blindness. Needed to be fed manually by us. I had it with me at all times, taking care of him.
On March 18, after what looked like brain complications, he died peacefully in my hands. His death affected me deeply.
Rest in peace.
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