Natural history of Connecticut

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 84. Chapters: Flora of Connecticut, Lists of fauna of Connecticut, Trees of Connecticut, Quercus alba, Kalmia latifolia, Fraxinus americana, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, List of birds of Connecticut, Panicum virgatum, List of mammals of Connecticut, Acer rubrum, Liriodendron tulipifera, Cornus florida, Acer negundo, Calamagrostis canadensis, Allium tricoccum, Diospyros virginiana, Nyssa sylvatica, Sassafras albidum, Arisaema triphyllum, Rhododendron maximum, Conopholis americana, Campanula rotundifolia, Sarracenia purpurea, Ceanothus americanus, Viburnum opulus, Ilex opaca, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Rhus typhina, Symplocarpus foetidus, Cypripedium reginae, Viburnum lentago, Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum, Cornus sericea, Asarum canadense, Allium canadense, Oenothera speciosa, Lindera benzoin, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Goodyera repens, Lobelia inflata, Charter Oak, Vitis palmata, Vaccinium angustifolium, Carex pensylvanica, Maianthemum canadense, Acer spicatum, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Northern highbush blueberry, Vallisneria americana, Ribes missouriense, Canadian blueberry, Crataegus iracunda, Calopogon tuberosus, Acer nigrum, Phlox divaricata, Rhododendron groenlandicum, Utricularia cornuta, Viburnum acerifolium, Galearis spectabilis, Iris versicolor, Aplectrum, Clethra alnifolia, Gentiana crinita, Scrophularia marilandica, Polygonatum biflorum, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, Utricularia resupinata, Utricularia radiata, Hydrophyllum virginianum, Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center at Milford Point, Lake Connecticut, Athyrium asplenioides, Utricularia striata, Lygodium palmatum, Phacelia purshii. Excerpt: This list of Connecticut birds is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species recorded from the U.S. state of Connecticut. This list is based on a checklist used by the Avian Records Committee of Connecticut, the list used by most birders to objectively evaluate species recorded in the state. This list is based on the committee's revision from 2007. A total of 417 species of birds have been recorded in Connecticut. This number includes all bird species known to have occurred in the state, including birds that don't breed in Connecticut, such as migrants, winter visitors and vagrants, as well as breeding species and recently extinct and extirpated species. There are about 280 species regularly occurring in the state. The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Connecticut (1994) listed 173 bird species as confirmed breeders, based on a 1982-1986 survey. An assessment before 2004 estimated the total number of species breeding regularly in the state at about 150. The taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families, genera and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adhere to the conventions of the AOU's (1998) Check-list of North American birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North American birds. The AOU's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature, the body responsible for maintaining and updating the Check-list, "strongly and unanimously continues to endorse the biological species concept (BSC), in which species are considered to be genetically cohesive groups of populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups" (AOU 1998). See Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for an alternative phylogenetic arrangement based on DNA-DNA hybridization. The following code...