Club Meeting & Talk: "A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology" presented by Bob Mulvihill, 8 October

Club Meeting & Talk: "A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology" presented by Bob Mulvihill

Three Rivers Birding Club

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Wed, 08 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve

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Wed, 08 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm (EDT)

Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve

614 Dorseyville Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15238-1618, United States, Fox Chapel

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Club Meeting & Talk: "A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology" presented by Bob Mulvihill
The October meeting is also our Annual Meeting, when we will elect members of our Board of Directors. Your attendance is very important as we select those who will lead 3RBC for the next two years (2026-2027). Let's all try to be there for this important election!

This will be a hybrid meeting starting at 6:30 PM (ET) in-person at Beechwood Farms auditorium [614 Dorseyville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238] and a Zoom meeting at 7:00 PM (ET) for those who cannot attend. The business meeting, which will be our Annual Meeting with Election of Board members, will begin at 7:30 PM, and Bob's presentation will start around 8:00 PM. Details on how to join the online event, including Zoom passcodes and other instructions, will be supplied a few days before the meeting.

"A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology" presented by Bob Mulvihill:

Bob Mulvihill will tell us about his 40+ years in ornithology at our October 8, 2025 (the second Wednesday in October) membership meeting with his talk "A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology." Throughout his career he has been attracted to a wide variety of research questions, not infrequently as a result of one or two quirky or eyebrow-raising observations he has made or have told to him by others. He will review his own ornithological peregrinations, showing examples of when and how unexpected observations have led him to some interesting and exciting discoveries of interest to birders and ornithologists alike!

Bob began studying and working with birds as a volunteer at Powdermill Nature Reserve in 1978. After college and graduate school he joined Powdermill's staff in 1983, and spent the next 28 years working there and helping band hundreds of thousands of birds. He served as a co-regional coordinator and species account author for the first Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas (1983-1989). Later, he was project coordinator and co-editor for the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania (2004-2010). In 2011, he joined the National Aviary, where he currently serves as staff ornithologist.

Bob spearheaded the Pittsburgh edition of the Smithsonian Institution's Neighborhood Nestwatch citizen science project from 2013-2019. In fall 2013, he also has launched the first urban Project Owlnet migration banding station in western PA at Sewickley Heights Borough Park to study the migration of Northern Saw-whet Owls.

Bob has authored more than forty scientific articles on a wide range of ornithological topics as well as many popular articles and blog posts about birds and nature. The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology have awarded him for his efforts in bird conservation. He currently serves as Editor for the Three Rivers Birding Club newsletter, The Peregrine.

Bob and his wife, Pam Ferkett (a librarian), live in Pleasant Hills with their indoor rescue cat, Smudge, and three rescue beagles: Rooby, Rascal, and Shiloh.


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Club Meeting & Talk: "A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology" presented by Bob Mulvihill, 8 October
Club Meeting & Talk: "A Serendipitous Career in Ornithology" presented by Bob Mulvihill
Wed, 08 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm