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<div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px"><font style="color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">For those of you "</font><font style="color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">community
scientists" who participated in the Puget Sound Seabird Survey (PSSS) during the 2021-22 season, t</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">his is a gentle back-up message to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">an
*email </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">y</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">ou </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">should</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> have
received Friday </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">from </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; caret-color: rgb(186, 0, 0);">Seattle</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> Audubon,</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> announcing
that the 2022-23 season is going forward (*</span><font style="color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">i</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">f you did not, please notify:</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> </span><a href="mailto:contact@pugetsoundbirds.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">contact@pugetsoundbirds.org</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> </span><font style="color: inherit; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">).
</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">If you are interested in continuing this season, please plan to head out to your usual PSSS site on October 1st for the first survey - survey windows and</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">other
details </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">will be emailed soon.</span><br>
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<div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:15px;margin:0px">Seattle Audubon announced in June that the PSSS was to be sunsetted, ending annual seabird counts dating back to 2007. Gratefully, new strategic thinking has come into play recently, and the PSSS
is <span>transitioning over to the Puget Sound Bird Observatory. </span><font>More info will be emailed soon to those wishing to continue: </font>we are excited for this new chapter for the survey, and <span>t</span><span>hank you all for being patient during
the changeover. Most importantly f</span><span>or now, please save the date, </span><span>Saturday, October 1st,</span><span> if you were a 2021-21 participant who is willing to survey again this season </span><font>(P.S. those who took part prior to last
season will also be contacted just to gauge interest). </font></div>
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<div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><span>Please reach out to </span><span> </span><a href="mailto:contact@pugetsoundbirds.org" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">contact@pugetsoundbirds.org</a><span> </span><span>with
questions. Thank you o</span><span>n behalf of the PSSS, Seattle Audubon and PSBO,</span></div>
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<div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font> Elaine [ elc at uw dot edu ]</font></div>
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