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 2,100,860 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 Wednesday, March 21, 2012, this site is home to 3,156,223 web pages describing 1,480,630 animals, 1,424,122 plants, 199,181 fungi, 16,052 chromista, 17,015 protozoa, 16,360 bacteria, and 2,323 viruses. Pages contain 330,572 photos taken by 1,494 photographers, 1,471 sound recordings, and definitions of 238,828 terms. 109,655 Large photos can be zoomed and panned.
We have gathered a total of 180,206,633 field observations from 28,481 data sets and 1,547 data providers which show latitude and longitude, from which we have generated 287,770 State Maps, 1,343,958 Country Maps, 459,978 Google maps showing up to 200 sightings each, and 459,978 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: Chirruping Wedgebill • Cornish Sucker • Black-faced Sheathbill • Cream-Colored Courser • Cream-coloured Courser • Banded Stilt • Black-Necked Stilt • Black-winged Stilt • Echasse blanche • Plongeon catmarin • Red-throated Diver • Pale Fork-marked Lemur • Porcupine River Stingray • Autobo • Raya Barrosa • Australian Red-necked Avocet • Avocette ? t?te noire • Labbe parasite • Arctic Jaeger • Pomarine Jaeger • Labbe pomarin • Great Skua • Common Snipe • B?cassine des marais • Eurasian Oystercatcher • Pheasant-tailed Jacana • Jacana ? longue queue • Grue couronn?e • Demoiselle Crane • Brolga • Eurasian Stone-curlew • Oedicn?me criard • Australian Swell Shark • Dark-throated Oriole • Brown Oriole • Olive-backed Oriole • Australian Longfinned Eel • Brown Eel • African Mottled Eel • African Longfin Eel • Pacific Long-Finned Eel • Giant Long-Finned Eel • Indonesian Longfinned Eel • Highlands Long-Finned Eel • Celebes Longfin Eel • Amalona • European Eel • Australian Short-Finned Eel • Common Eel • Haddock • Skipjack • Waccamaw Silverside • European Smelt • Glossy Ibis • Ibis falcinelle • Fulmar • Dusky-brown Oriole • Olive-brown Oriole • Grey-collared Oriole • Green Oriole • Black-eared Oriole • Eastern Nicator • Nicator ? gorge blanche • Wied’s Neopelma •
Recent Plant updates: Honey Mesquite Prosopis Juliflora • Robinson’s Hawkweed • Estuary Pipewort • Arctic Willowherb • River Wild-Rye • Hairy Wild Rye • Coast Cockspur • Giant Claret Cup • Alicoche • Arizona Rainbow Cactus • Allicoche Hedgehog Cactus • Calico Cactus • Golden Rainbow Hedgehog • Black-Spine Claret Cup • Brownspine Hedgehog Cactus • Chisos Lace Cactus • Claret Cup Cactus • Pitaya • Black Lace Cactus • Robbins Spikerush • Bonker Hedgehog • Dahlia Apple-Cactus • Cunyado • Acacia • Nuttall Waterweed • Butter Print • Oleaster • River Maple • Barbed-Wire Cactus • Sugar Maple • Ponderosa Pine • Cedros Island Pine • Pino Insigne • Douglas Fir • Escova-De-Macaco • Crimson Pitcherplant • Common Lac Insect • Mysore Lac Insect • San Francisco Bay Spineflower • Knotweed Spineflower • Crispleaf Buckwheat • Shortstem Buckwheat • Slender Buckwheat • Cottam’s Buckwheat • Nodding Buckwheat • Douglas’ Buckwheat • Thorne’s Buckwheat • Esmeralda Buckwheat • Bailey’s Buckwheat • Bailey’s Buckwheat • Goldenball Eriogonum • Alpine Golden Buckwheat • Arrowleaf Buckwheat • Flatcrown Buckwheat • Eastern Mojave Buckwheat • San Clemente Island Buckwheat • Heermann Buckwheat • Heermann’s Buckwheat • Parsnipflower Buckwheat • Unarmed Buckwheat •
