EARLY MORNING BIRD WALKS: UNIVERSITY WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES
Each morning, leaders will be available to escort people to one of the university's nearby wildlife sanctuaries, either the open, marshy Center for Urban Horticulture or the wooded Arboretum. These sites, both accessible by walking from the meeting site, support a good variety of urban birds, often including migrant shorebirds at the former and migrant passerines at both. They are the closest places to the meeting that attendees can visit on their own at any time.

VISITING LOCAL ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
There are two notable ornithological research collections in or near Seattle. The Burke Museum on the University of Washington Campus has 50,000 specimens and can be visited by appointment: Contact collection managers Rob Faucett or Chris Wood (phone: 206-543-1668). The Slater Museum on the campus of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma (www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html) has 23,000 bird specimens: Please contact museum director Dennis Paulson (253-879-3798, dpaulson@ups.edu) if you are interested in visiting this collection.

OTHER NATURAL-HISTORY INTERESTS
Seattle is full of people who know about local natural history, from plants and fungi through butterflies and dragonflies to herps and mammals, and the Local Committee is willing to try to help people with interests in seeing taxa other than birds in the field.