Audubon Native Plants for Birds by ZIP Code

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Extract native plants data from Audubon's "Plants for Birds" database by US ZIP code. For each ZIP, returns the native plants Audubon recommends to support local bird populations — including the bird families attracted, wildlife resources provided (caterpillar host, nectar, fruit, seeds), and plant characteristics.

This actor provides a unique zip → native plant → bird habitat value join that is not available elsewhere as a structured data feed.

Features

• Accepts a list of ZIP codes or uses the full ~33,700 US ZCTA universe
• Extracts all plants for each ZIP code, following pagination automatically
• Returns bird family groups attracted by each plant and wildlife resources provided
• Includes location context (city, state, total plant count) per ZIP
• Respects maxItems to limit output size
• Polite crawling: no proxy, no captcha, server-rendered HTML

Input

Example input:

{
"zipcodes":["90210","10001","98101"],
"maxItems":100
}

Output

One record per native plant per ZIP code:

Example output record:

{
"zipcode":"90210",
"location":"Los Angeles, CA, 90210",
"state":"CA",
"total_plants_for_zip":26,
"common_name":"Cobwebby Thistle",
"scientific_name":"Cirsium occidentale",
"plant_type":"ANNUALS/PER.",
"bird_value":"Butterflies, Caterpillars, Nectar, Seeds",
"bird_species_supported":"Waxwings, Orioles, Mockingbirds & Thrashers, Cardinals & Grosbeaks, Sparrows",
"num_bird_species":5,
"audubon_plant_url":"https://www.audubon.org/native-plants/species/cobwebby-thistle",
"source":"Audubon Native Plants for Birds"
}

Use Cases

• Habitat-gardening apps: power plant recommendations by location with bird attraction data
• Conservation-landscaping nonprofits: bulk export of native plant recommendations by geography
• Native-plant nurseries: enrich catalog/leads by ZIP with bird habitat value metadata
• GIS / ecology analytics: zip-keyed native-plant × bird-ecology dataset for spatial analysis
• AI garden assistants: training data combining plant taxonomy with bird habitat benefit by region

Notes

• Source: Audubon Society Native Plants for Birds database
• Data reflects Audubon's ecoregion-based recommendations for each ZIP code
• Pagination is handled automatically; large ZIP batches can produce thousands of records
• The bundled ZIP list uses Census 2023 ZCTA definitions (~33,700 ZIP codes)
• Some ZIP codes return 0 plants (military, territories, unassigned); those are silently skipped