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In search of Britain's endemic wildlife (www.birdguides.com)

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Birders probably know more about endemic species than most other people. When travelling abroad, birders often plan trips around the species that occur nowhere else on Earth – after all, you'll never get the chance to see them anywhere else.

But in case anyone needs a definition, an endemic species is an organism restricted to a single defined geographic location. Giant Panda is endemic to China; Dodo was endemic to Mauritius and Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch is, unsurprisingly, only found on Gran Canaria.

Typically, the term endemic is used to refer to 'national' endemics; those species found within a single country. When defined in this way, endemics make the greatest contribution to rates of global extinctions. More than 90% of the extinct species and subspecies recorded by the IUCN were national endemics.

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