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Seaside Sparrow

Ammodramus maritimus

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 17 of 64 parishes, across 3 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
17 of 64 parishes
Habitats
3

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
17 of 64 parishes
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 Louisiana 3

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 3

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerWinterAtlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

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.

SummerWinter

Swamps

Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.

SummerWinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp; Mississippi River Bottomland Depression
Other habitats in its models (15)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain 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.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal 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.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • The model uses its selected habitat classes to express salt and brackish habitat associations.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests here, in 17 of 64 parishes.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 135

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 218

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources