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Sarasota News Leader June 28, 2013 Page 10 staffers qualified to care for birds, that it is improperly housing birds, that it is euthanizing birds rather than helping them recover and that it is scaling back its rescue operations — points, he notes, that violate the nonprofit's lease with the city. Fox says things at the nonprofit started to change with the arrival of CEO David Pilston last year. SOS stopped sending out volunteers to pick up injured birds, she adds, and began only accepting birds brought to the facility. The decision "incensed" her. In January, Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a bird rescue located in Indian Shores, stopped accepting injured birds because of funding issues, and SOS was asked to help house some of the critters. Fox's immediate response was "absolutely," she tells The Sara- A sign welcomes visitors to Save Our Seabirds. Photo by Norman Schimmel A parrot peers out from its cage. Photo by Norman Schimmel