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Museums as training grounds
Museum collections are the training grounds for the next generation of biologists who will take on the biodiversity crisis with new skills and technologies. At the Moore Lab, we leverage an extensive historical collection of birds and mammals to understand how biodiversity got here and how best to conserve it in a changing world.
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Virtual Tour
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the world's largest Mexican bird collection.
The Moore Lab is the largest collection of Mexican birds in the world. Researchers visit the lab from all over to study the diversity of bird form and color for insight into avian evolution, ecology, and conservation.
The Moore Lab is especially rich in tanagers, family Thraupidae—one of the most colorful bird families on Earth. Our synoptic series of tanagers shows one of every species and is always a highlight of the tour.
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Our Team
Diego Blanco is a birder and naturalist from Los Angeles, California. He enjoys hiking, camping, and documenting biodiversity through photography and illustration. Diego graduated from Cornell University in 2022 and has worked as an administrative...
Diego Blanco
Outreach and Research Assistant, Moore Lab of Zoology
Dr. McCormack uses museum specimens and genomes to study the evolutionary history of birds, focusing especially on how both ancient landscape changes and more recent human-caused environmental changes affect birds’ distributions, appearance, and DNA...
John McCormack
Director and Curator of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology; Professor, Biology
Whitney has experience with genomics and museum collections. She is currently a PhD student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at UCLA where she is studying the genetics of color evolution using large-scale biodiversity data. From 2012...
Whitney Tsai Nakashima
Research Associate, Moore Lab of Zoology and Genomics Center
