Bird
Seaside Sparrow
Ammodramus maritimus
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 43 of 67 counties, across 5 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 43 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 43 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Summer, Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 5
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.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Other habitats in its models (7)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater 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.
- Mississippi River Bottomland Depression Summer and winter.
- The model uses its selected habitat classes to express salt and brackish habitat associations.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 29 of 67 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 17 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 137
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Black NeedlerushJuncus roemerianus
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Saltmarsh CordgrassSpartina alterniflora
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Tropical WaxweedCuphea aspera
- Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipesMuhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Violet ButterwortPinguicula ionantha
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Tough BumeliaSideroxylon tenax
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Archidium minusArchidium minus
- Batis maritimaBatis maritima
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
Wildlife 199
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
- Snail KiteRostrhamus sociabilis
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)






































