On 3/24/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
"List of birds native to Chicago area but not the whole of North America"
Endemic to Chicago is the terminology.
No, that doesn't work. Something can be native to lots of places within N. America, while not being native to the whole of it. A bird found in Chicago and a neighbouring place should be mentioned in those 2 lists, not the main list, otherwise you lose the precision. Creating a list for "birds endemic to Chicago and X" would result in lots of very short lists for each possible combination of places.
But you didn't request the wording for a species native to Chicago and X, just one native to Chicago. And there is a word for that. IF you have two small endemic populations, there is generally a reason for that, namely the species was once more widespread and has been extirpated from elsewhere in between, in which case its distribution is relictual and it IS properly called an endemic, just not of Chicago alone, but of the larger area, or it has been introduced in the second place, in which case it can still be endemic to the first, or it is actively speciating due to a founder floundering there, or its endemism is edaphic, or otherwise than geographically defined.
Endemism is the word.
KP