Bird
Seaside Sparrow
Ammodramus maritimus
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in 2 of 67 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 2 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Other habitats in its models (15)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp Summer and winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- The model uses its selected habitat classes to express salt and brackish habitat associations.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in 2 of 67 counties.
- Summer: nests here, in 1 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 66
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSporobolus pumilus
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Tall JointweedPolygonella gracilis
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Virginia Chain-fernAnchistea virginica
- Bushy BluestemAndropogon glomeratus
- American BlueheartsBuchnera americana
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Ceratiola ericoidesCeratiola ericoides
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Godfrey's Golden AsterChrysopsis godfreyi
Wildlife 161
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wilson's WarblerWilsonia pusilla
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Seaside Sparrow
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)






































