Pigeon Rescue

OPEN EVENT.

Join us on Stringfoot Sunday to help Amsterdam’s city pigeons!

People often think that pigeons are wild animals, but they’re not. They’re domesticated and depend on humans for food. Pigeons have been living with and have been bred by people for thousands of years, but when humans didn’t want the birds anymore, they dumped them in the wild and started seeing them as pests.

This Sunday we’ll be learning from a local expert from Stichting Stadsduiven Hulp (https://stadsduivenhulp.nl) how to assist pigeons suffering from stringfoot, a condition caused by debris wrapped around their feet. If this doesn’t get removed a pigeon might eventually lose a foot.

So if you want to help out these pigeons, please join us this Sunday to learn how!