The recording of this program from 3 March 2026
is now available online.

Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Passerines, with Diego Blanco.

Diego Blanco of the Moore Laboratory of Ornithology will present an Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Passerines. Topics will include song bird behavior, evolution, and conservation. Diego will describe the avian family tree and explain how songbirds have spread across the globe and how they’ve changed over time.  

Before Diego Blanco became an Outreach and Research Assistant at the Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College, he was a Los Angeles area birder and naturalist. He enjoys hiking, camping, and documenting biodiversity through photography and illustration. Diego graduated from Cornell University in 2022 and has worked as an administrative assistant at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants where he taught field sketching and bird identification classes. He spent the summer 2024 season as a point count technician with the Klamath Bird Observatory conducting surveys on bird populations and plant communities in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California.