Robert S. Mulvihill, the National Aviary’s Ornithologist, grew up in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and has been an active member of the birding and bird conservation community in western Pennsylvania for more than 40 years. He has a B.S. in education from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He began his ornithological career at Powdermill Nature Reserve, the biological field station of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where he worked at the world-renowned Powdermill bird banding station. During his 30-year tenure there, Bob banded more than 200,000 birds and conducted in-depth long-term field research on Dark-eyed Junco, Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Louisiana Waterthrush. He has authored more than three dozen scientific articles, including several related to the effects of climate change and local environmental stressors on birds. He has served for more than a decade on the Ornithological Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey. He has co-edited volumes on the conservation of Pennsylvania birds, written dozens of popular articles about birds and nature, and given hundreds of talks in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and United Kingdom. Bob served as a regional coordinator for the first Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania from 1983-89; he was the statewide project coordinator and co-editor of the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania from 2004-10. In 2013, shortly after he arrived at the National Aviary, Mulvihill brought Neighborhood Nestwatch, a community science project developed by the Smithsonian Institution, to backyard bird-lovers in the Greater Pittsburgh area. He also brought Project Owlnet, a collaborative continent-wide study monitoring the migrations of Northern Saw-whet Owls, to Pittsburgh — banding owls three nights a week at a popular urban park in spring and fall. Bob has received awards in recognition of his research and education efforts to promote bird conservation from the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology.