Community Engagement

Tucked within a small liberal arts college in Northeast Los Angeles, the Moore Lab is a hidden gem that houses over 65,000 vintage bird and mammal specimens. Founded by Robert T. Moore, the specimens were kept in his Pasadena home before it became Occidental College’s Moore Laboratory of Zoology in 1951. With the help from an Angeleno collector and a team of researchers in Mexico, our museum specimens largely represent Mexican birds from over 300 sites across the country.

Tucked within a small liberal arts college in Northeast Los Angeles, the Moore Lab is a hidden gem that houses over 65,000 vintage bird and mammal specimens. Founded by Robert T. Moore, the specimens were kept in his Pasadena home before it became Occidental College’s Moore Laboratory of Zoology in 1951. With the help from an Angeleno collector and a team of researchers in Mexico, our museum specimens largely represent Mexican birds from over 300 sites across the country.

Tucked within a small liberal arts college in Northeast Los Angeles, the Moore Lab is a hidden gem that houses over 65,000 vintage bird and mammal specimens. Founded by Robert T. Moore, the specimens were kept in his Pasadena home before it became Occidental College’s Moore Laboratory of Zoology in 1951. With the help from an Angeleno collector and a team of researchers in Mexico, our museum specimens largely represent Mexican birds from over 300 sites across the country.

Faculty and Staff: email bsa@oxy.edu to get tickets before the show date OR purchase tickets at the door the night of the show. Apollo Night pre-sale tickets are currently $6. During the week of the show (2/20-2/24), the tickets will be selling for $12.

This Valentine’s Week, Project SAFE is offering space to reflect upon, practice, and discuss self love, consent, and relationship endings. 

This Valentine’s Week, Project SAFE is offering space to reflect, practice, and discuss self love, consent, and relationship endings. 

This Valentine’s Week, Project SAFE is offering space to reflect upon, practice, and discuss self love, consent, and relationship endings. 

This Valentine’s Week, Project SAFE is offering space to reflect, practice, and discuss self love, consent, and relationship endings. 

Roosting sites are a wonderful way to observe a flock of parrots and parakeets gather during winter evenings. At the Moore Lab, our team launched the Free-flying Los Angeles Parrot Project, where we’re looking closely at the DNA of Red-crowned Parrots and Lilac-crowned Parrots and collecting community science observations along the way. Native to opposite coasts of Mexico the Red-crowned Parrots and Lilac-crowned Parrots never meet, but in Los Angeles they mingle, hybridize, and roost together!

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