Our natural world is rapidly losing its diversity and abundance. To slow this loss, and to better appreciate the natural world, we must begin with local nature. ZipcodeZoo works to bring the natural world to armchair, amateur, and professional naturalists. Our focus is Applied Biogeography: understanding plants and animals in their place, perhaps even your backyard.
Based on the location of your ISP, ZipcodeZoo guesses where you live. You can improve on our guess, if you wish, by correcting the location info here. Your custom home page on the "My Home" tab below uses that location info. Everyone will see info on invasive species, species that are threatened, and all species that live in this area. Visitors from the U.S. will also see zipcode demographics, local attractions for naturalists, and the local weather.
We are working to become a proper home base for Naturalists, both amateur and professional.
We have also created 173,246 pages with text, photos, and maps for taxonomic groups from Domain down to Genus. Finding all of this can be fast, because about 3 million pages are indexed for soundex searches.
This site is big. As of Tuesday, January 06, 2009, this site is home to 2,510,137 web pages describing 1,199,430 animals, 1,127,613 plants, 137,414 fungi, 16,941 chromista, 15,484 protozoa, 12,685 bacteria, and 282 viruses. Pages contain 266,904 photos taken by 1,407 photographers, 1,470 sound recordings, and definitions of 234,889 terms. 87,264 Large photos can be zoomed and panned.
We have gathered a total of 86,491,927 field observations from 28,481 data sets and 1,547 data providers which show latitude and longitude, from which we have generated 240,645 State Maps, 744,777 Country Maps, 169,583 Google maps showing up to 200 sightings each, and 60,607 Google Earth maps showing all sightings. Click on a pinpoint on one of these maps, and you'll learn more about that observation.
Recent Animal updates: Cross-Leaved Heath • Deremensis Group Lucky Bamboo • Abbott’s Anglehead Lizard • Phyllanthus • Ruddy Turnstone • Cornish Heath Lyoness • Bell Heather • Sandwort • Silky Wilsonia • Roundleaf Wilsonia • Striped Dracaena • Red Heath • Laurentia • Narrow-Leaved Wilsonia • Nan Sha Shen • Bridal Heath • Scotch Heath • Autograph Tree • Dragon Tree • Tree Heath • Monopsis • Ladybells Adenophora Potaninii • Burning Bush • Amlak • Birdseed Leaf-Flower • Stipulate Leaf-Flower • Baringo Tilapia • Golden Moss • Lady Bells • Irish Heath • Gold Lobelia • Lemon Lime Dracaena • Elim Heath • Tejo • Green Heath • Dwarf Spanish Heath • Outeniqua Heath • Corn Plant • King George Spring Heath • Vivelii Spring Heath • Winter Beauty Spring Heath •
Recent Plant updates: Yoshino Cherry • Pacific Silverstripe Halfbeak • Rag Ruff • Eared Blacksmelt • Shortnose Spearfish • Stout Blacksmelt • Bleeding Wrasse • Puget Sound Sculpin • Sail-fin Molly • Northern Pipefish • Spotted Rockskipper • Tin Can Bay Whiting • Clanwilliam Redfin • Locusthead • Ewa Blenny • Pale-ear Garden Eel • Dwarf Yellow Flame of the Woods • Blue Bird Forget Me Not • Christmas Heather • Lavender Lace Carnation • Kristina Carnation • Brocade Carnation • Blueboy Carnation • Cfpc Malea Carnation • Kentucky Bluegrass • Ravine Fescue • Gaudichaud Lobelia • Talustuft • Red-Whisker Clammyweed • Purple Cyanea • European Red Elderberry • Few-Leaf Thistle • Herbaceous Seepweed • Cusick’s Bluegrass • Brittleleaf Manzanita • ’oha Wai Nui • Kauai Clermontia • Hana Clermontia • Bog Clermontia • Aconite • Elegant Manzanita • Splitleaf Cyanea • Wetforest Cyanea • Haha • Hairy Cyanea • Great Plains Flatsedge • Lance-Leaf Stonecrop • Hedge False Bindweed • California Live-Forever • Blochman Dudleya • Parry Thistle • Prickly Russian Thistle • Eastwood Manzanita • Degener’s Rollandia • Black Mouse-Ear Chickweed • Chalk Dudleya • Indian Manzanita • Yerba De Estrella • Tropical Whitetop • Broadleaf Stonecrop • Arctic Bluegrass • Mutton Grass • Oahu Sedge • Forest Camp Sandwort • Sack Saltbush • Atlantic Sedge • Brownish Sedge • Lesser Saltmarsh Sedge •
