Community Engagement

Moore Lab of Zoology and FEAST Garden will be hosting a bird migration watch and garden tours in celebration of Earth Month!

Join us as we take a look, and count, the migratory birds visiting the silk oak trees during spring. Discover dynamic agricultural practices of the student-led urban garden and learn about initiatives like composting and sustainable growing practices. All ages welcome.

Celebrate Earth Month at Oxy and join the Moore Lab of Zoology and Vantuna Research Group for a natural history collection open house!

Natural history collections offer a wealth of information. They serve as a place to view and discover nature, explore the histories of the specimens or a collection of species, and inspire scientific questions that are significant to conservation.

Take a self-guided, exploratory tour of the world's largest Mexican bird collection and a fish collection that was founded in the 70s. All ages welcome.

Get to know your local feathered friends, and join the Moore Lab of Zoology for a guided bird walk as we look for resident birds found on campus and migratory birds visiting for the spring season.

Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

Discover resident and seasonal birds as we take a bird walk around campus grounds. We'll begin our walk at 8:00 a.m. outside of the lab entrance near Sycamore Glen. 

Bring binoculars if you have 'em, and we'll also have plenty to share!

Tucked within Occidental College in Northeast L.A. and as featured in Los Angeles Times, the Moore Laboratory of Zoology is a hidden gem that houses over 65,000 vintage bird and mammal specimens.

Discover museum specimens from the world’s largest Mexican bird collection and get a closer look at morphological adaptations, a painstakingly-collected hummingbird collection, wild parrots, rare extinct birds, and much more.

Tucked within Occidental College in Northeast L.A. and as featured in Los Angeles Times, the Moore Laboratory of Zoology is a hidden gem that houses over 65,000 vintage bird and mammal specimens.

Discover museum specimens from the world’s largest Mexican bird collection and get a closer look at morphological adaptations, a painstakingly-collected hummingbird collection, wild parrots, rare extinct birds, and much more.