Moore Laboratory of Zoology

Moore Laboratory of Zoology The world's largest Mexican bird collection and a research group blending museum collections with DNA technology at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

The Moore Lab of Zoology houses 65,000 bird specimens and 2,000 mammal specimens, most collected from 1933-1955 in Mexico. It is the largest Mexican bird collection in the world and a destination for those studying Mexican birds. Our mission is to understand how Earth's amazing biodiversity was generated through the forces of evolution, and how it's now coping with environmental changes. We blend

classical museum studies like field expeditions and specimen collection and curation with the latest technologies like DNA sequencing.

Peekaboo! It’s nesting season for the Los Angeles parrots. All over the city parrots are pairing up and finding tree cav...
04/25/2026

Peekaboo! It’s nesting season for the Los Angeles parrots. All over the city parrots are pairing up and finding tree cavities to call home for the next few months. Surprising as it sounds, parrots can be stealthy near the nest. This female silently popped up to check out a bothersome leaf blower, but then quickly ducked back into her hidey-hole.

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Los Angeles, CA
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