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 173,245 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 Monday, March 15, 2010, this site is home to 2,646,558 web pages describing 1,296,615 animals, 1,105,429 plants, 193,534 fungi, 17,562 chromista, 16,517 protozoa, 16,112 bacteria, and 496 viruses. Pages contain 312,841 photos taken by 1,408 photographers, 1,471 sound recordings, and definitions of 236,201 terms. 107,064 Large photos can be zoomed and panned.
We have gathered a total of 127,715,643 field observations from 28,481 data sets and 1,547 data providers which show latitude and longitude, from which we have generated 256,342 State Maps, 1,142,567 Country Maps, 450,685 Google maps showing up to 200 sightings each, and 450,685 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: Snowshoe Hare • European Robin • Black-Tailed Deer • Common Goldcrest • Gray Wagtail •
Recent Plant updates: Japanese Silver Grass • Falsegold Groundsel • Hoary Groundsel • Largescaled Rasbora • Waryfish • Showy Alpine Ragwort • Longnose Tapirfish • Dusty Miller • Trailing Jade • Spear Head • Holly-Leaved Senecio • Fireweed • Cirrus Dusty Miller • Narrow Groundsel • Alpine Groundsel • Hispid Fireweed • Mountain Fireweed • Pale Groundsel • Tree Daisy • Fireweed Groundsel • Variable Groundsel • Cotton Fireweed • Tall Yellow-Top • Scented Groundsel • Forest Groundsel • Coast Groundsel • Quayles Ragwort • Bois De ChÈvre • Estrella • Smooth Ragwort • Woolly Ragwort • Blue Chalksticks • Golden Groundsel • Silver Sprite Bayberry • Variegated Flowering Ivy • California Geranium • String of Bananas • Mexican Flame Vine • Holm’s Groundsel • Biglow’s Ragwort • Bolander’s Ragwort • Splitleaf Groundsel • Desert Ragwort • Ragwood Groundsel • Macdougal’s Groundsel • Douglas’ Groundsel • Threadleaf Groundsel • Dwarf Mountain Ragwort • Lambstongue Ragwort • Lambstongue Groundsel • Paleyellow Ragwort • Scribner’s Ragwort • Huachuca Mountain Ragwort • New Mexico Groundsel •
