Stephen P. Broker
Amphibians and Reptiles
Babbitt, Lewis Hall. 1937. The amphibia of Connecticut. Hartford: State Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin 57, 50pp+plates. Early but important check-list of the amphibians of the state.
Klemens, Michael W. 1993. Amphibians and Reptiles of Connecticut and Adjacent Regions. Hartford, Connecticut: State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection, Bulletin No. 112, 318pp. The essential work on Connecticut's herpetofauna. Includes some of my early field notes on copperheads at West Rock Ridge.
Lamson, George Herbert. 1935. The reptiles of Connecticut. Hartford: State Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin 54, 35pp+plates. Counterpart to the state natural history survey publication on amphibians.
Birds
Askins, Robert A. 2000. Restoring North American birds: lessons from landscape ecology. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 320pp. Highlights the changing landscape in Connecticut and the United States and the resultant population declines in deep forest, grassland, and other groups of birds. Written by a Connecticut College biologist, a leader in the study of songbird declines.
Bagg, Aaron Clark, and Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr. 1937. Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. Northampton, Massachusetts: The Hampshire Bookshop, 813pp. Important nineteenth and early twentieth century field data on bird species occurrences and distributions in Massachusetts and neighboring Connecticut.
Merriam, C. Hart. 1877. A review of the birds of Connecticut, with remarks on their habits. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume IV, Part 1. Pages 1-150. The state's second check-list of birds.
Sage, John Hall, Louis Bennet Bishop, and Walter Parks Bliss. 1913. The birds of Connecticut. Hartford: State Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin No. 20, 370pp. The state's third check-list of birds.
Zeranski, Joseph D., and Thomas R. Baptist. 1990. Connecticut Birds. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 328pp. The most current descriptive check-list of the birds of Connecticut, by two active state birders.
Mammals
Goodwin, George Gilbert. 1935. The mammals of Connecticut. Hartford: State of Connecticut, State Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin No. 53, 221pp+33 plates. Published during the same time period as the amphibians and reptiles check-lists.
Whitaker, John O., Jr., and William J. Hamilton, Jr. 1998. Mammals of the Eastern United States (Third Edition). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 583pp. Good reference material.
