Ph.D. Dr. Scott Shalaway is a certified wildlife biologist and one of the country’s leading authorities on backyard wildlife. Since 1991, he has published more than 85 articles on backyard birding in Wildbird and Birder’s World magazines, as well as dozens more regional publications such as Pennsylvania Wildlife and Wonderful West Virginia. In 1995, Bird Watcher’s Digest Press published his book, A guide to Bird Homes.

Dr. Shalaway holds a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Michigan State University and a B.S. in entomology from the University of Delaware. For nine years he taught classes in biology, wildlife ecology and ornithology at Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma.

• In 1986, Dr. Shalaway began writing a weekly nature column that now has a circulation of more than one million and appears in more than 20 newspapers in nine states, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

• Since 1992, Scott has hosted a weekly one-hour, radio talk show about birds and nature.

• Throughout the year, Dr. Shalaway speaks to dozens of civic and conservation organizations on a variety of natural history, environmental and conservation topics.