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 Saturday, January 28, 2012, this site is home to 2,646,557 web pages describing 1,296,614 animals, 1,105,429 plants, 193,534 fungi, 17,562 chromista, 16,529 protozoa, 16,112 bacteria, and 484 viruses. Pages contain 312,846 photos taken by 1,408 photographers, 1,471 sound recordings, and definitions of 236,201 terms. 107,069 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: Common Krib • Common Fangtooth • Arctic Yellowjacket • Scarlet Ibis • Lined Shore Crab • Yellow-breasted Capuchin • Beautiful Jay • Dgway • Phyllodactylus Reissi • Bengal Roof Turtle • Bengal Tiger • Great Indian Rhinoceros • Cano Toadfish • Slow Worm • Bay Lynx • Eastern River Cooter • Black-Crowned Night Heron • Island Glass Lizard • Mourning Cloak • Elm Borer • Ivory-Marked Beetle • Egyptian Cobra • Javelin Sand Boa • Mediterranean Spur-thighed Tortoise • Peru Slender Snake • Yellow-throated Plated Lizard • Yellow Fan-fingered Gecko • Rapid Racerunner • Flapneck Chameleon • Blue Krait • Common or Rhombic Egg Eater • Ocellated Bronze Skink • Collared Reed Snake • Rockslide Checkerspot • Cross-Leaved Heath • Hecale Longwing • Themistocles Daggerwing • Xenoclea Longwing • Philinus False 88 • Hymenaea Clearwing • White-Spotted Pannonia Satyr • Oto Clearwing • Furcula Daggerwing • Black Swallowtail • Sulawesi Collared Myna • Spring Azure • Viardi White • Mylitta Crescent • Rainbow Lorikeet • Indian Gaur • Dark Tropical Buckeye • Corybassa Crescent • Oak Hairstreak • Forked-Throated Grasshopper • Dongara Porraxia • Orange-Winged Pespulia • Tidewater Trig • Spring Trig • Zebra Cedarinia • Riverina Stonehopper • Slow-Tinkling Trig • South-Western Hairy-Foot • Parenthesis • Queensland Pig-Head •
Recent Plant updates: Pale Grass Pink • Peruvian Lady Slipper • Henrys Cypripedium • Lady Slipper Orchid • Early Marsh Orchid • Madeiran Orchid • Overlooked Orchid • Jade Slipper Orchid • Kentucky Lady’s Slipper • Stone Fox Orchid • Kaleidoscope Moth Orchid • Grass pink • Dragon’s Mouth • Fringed Sun Orchid • Lemon Orchid • Tongue Orchid • Fraueschub • Hard-Leaved Pocket Orchid • Black Orchid • American Yellow Lady’s-Slipper • Windowsill Orchid • Bulbed Snake Orchid • Encyclia Orchid • Butterfly Orchid • Ladys Slipper • Lady’s-Slipper Orchid • Brassia • Cattleya Orchid • Vanda Orchid • Dancing Girls Orchid • Star of Leyte • Queen of the Angraecums • Aerides • Pink Fairies • Ascocentrum • Aerangis • Cricket Orchid • Thailand Orchid • Antelope Orchid • Slender Tree Orchid • Beech Orchid • Banana Orchid • Large White Lady’s-Slipper • Lily of the Valley Orchid • Multi-Flower Orchid • Gomesa • Florida Blue • Rima-Rima • Lycaste • Lockhartia • Dendrobium • Ironbark Orchid • Ravine Orchid • Sickle Greenhood • Maroonhood • Hardy Chinese Orchid • Blue Knob Orchid • Fairy Bells • Golden Slippers • Bearded Greenhood • Tropical Ladys-Slipper Orchid • Elegant Wallflower Orchid • Fu-Ran •
