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 173,243 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, February 07, 2012, this site is home to 3,153,709 web pages describing 1,480,008 animals, 1,424,090 plants, 199,200 fungi, 16,052 chromista, 17,030 protozoa, 16,361 bacteria, and 428 viruses. Pages contain 322,088 photos taken by 1,431 photographers, 1,471 sound recordings, and definitions of 236,592 terms. 107,110 Large photos can be zoomed and panned.
We have gathered a total of 186,950,627 field observations from 28,481 data sets and 1,547 data providers which show latitude and longitude, from which we have generated 286,605 State Maps, 1,336,866 Country Maps, 456,499 Google maps showing up to 200 sightings each, and 456,499 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: Rickett’s Big-footed Myotis • Spotted snake-eel • Anguila tigre • Clarion snake eel • Tieso manchado de Clari?n • Longfin spotted snake eel • Tieso de aleta larga • Yanbaru Whiskered Bat • Yuma Myotis • Welwitch’s Bat • Long-legged Myotis • Bearded Catfish • Fish-eating Bat • Cave Bat • Cave Myotis • Cape Hairy Bat • Fringed Myotis • Stalker’s Myotis • Velvety Myotis • Himalayan Whiskered Bat • Mandelli’s Mouse-eared Myotis • Scott’s Mouse-eared Bat • Schaub’s Myotis • Red Myotis • Thick-thumbed Myotis • Riparian Myotis • Ridley’s Myotis • Frosted Myotis • Flat-headed Myotis • Peking Myotis • Peninsular Myotis • Montane Myotis • Indiana Bat • Arizona Myotis • Nepal Myotis • Singaporese Whiskered Myotis • Black Myotis • Curacao Myotis • Nepalese Whiskered Bat • Morris’s Bat • Natterer’s Bat • MURIN DE NATTERER • MURCI?LAGO RATONERO GRIS • MURIN ? MOUSTACHES • MURCI?LAGO RATONERO BIGOTUDO • Greater Mouse-eared Bat • GRAND MURIN • MURCI?LAGO RATONERO GRANDE • David’s Myotis • Western Small-footed Myotis • Maluku Myotis • Large-footed Myotis • Dark-nosed Small-footed Myotis • Burmese Whiskered Myotis • Schwartz’s Myotis • Pallid Large-footed Myotis • Murin De Bechstein • MURCI?LAGO RATONERO FORESTAL • Chinese Water Myotis • Brandt’s Myotis • BRANDT’S MYOTIS • MURCI?LAGO DE BRANDT • Anjouan Myotis • MURIN DOR? • Peters’s Myotis • Gomantong Myotis • Annamit Myotis • Armenian Myotis • Bokhara Whiskered Bat •
Recent Plant updates: Faya HerreÑa • Faya Herre?a • Ausu • Myosotis de Soleirol • Myosotis de lAtlas • Creeping Forget-me-not • Azores Forget-Me-Not • Apricot Blush Foxglove • Musschia • False ’ohe • Asiatic Dewflower • Bishop’s Goutweed • Gasparillo • Bog Avens • Common Wormwood • Annual Rye Grass • Broadleaf Plantain • Crack Willow • Butterbur • Bladder Campion • Jointed Rush • Jonc Articul? • Curled Pondweed • Potamot Cr?pu • European Thimble-Weed • Blister Flower • Grey Sallow • European Beech • Addersmeat • Crinkled Hair Grass • Absinth • Catchfly • Cocksfoot • American Milletgrass • Black Alder • Cultivated Currant • Eurasian Water-Milfoil • Annual Blue Grass • Kibana No Renri So • Noni Kuahiwi • Butterfly Iris • Common Filbert • Hazel • Bois De Chenilles • Arrowleaf False Pickerelweed • Leaf Pondweed • Cordate Monochoria • Pickerel Weed • Monadenium • Pelotilla de Chinamada • European Meadow Rush • Hard Rush • Jonc Arqu? • Giant Horsetail • Black Manwood • Acariguara • Sycamore • Jurema Branca • Sabi? • Golden Pagoda • Poroto Angu • Faux Ebenier • Water Manna Grass • Tomill?n Blanco • Tomillo de Taganana •
