The NRDB is a compilation of observations of flora and fauna made at open space and nature preserves in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The database can be searched for available data on flora, mammals, birds, and reptiles-amphibians-fishes seen at one or more preserves.

How to Use the NRDB

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NRDB Release of March, 2024
Statistics Species: 4,513; Preserves: 238; Sightings: 95,181.
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Stanford University
What's New Thanks to the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, the NRDB will continue to be updated and available at least through 2024, and in some form, beyond that.
Don't Forget Checklist Search and Spreadsheet View

Checklist Search provides a simple and fast way to generate a pre-formatted checklist suitable for printing. Checklist Search is the first selection under the Searches menu. Use Advanced Search to generate checklists with custom formatting or contents.

All search results (except Checklist Search results) now include a button to view the search results as a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel.