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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

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
SummerWinterWest Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Large River Swamp; Mississippi River Bottomland DepressionJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874)The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

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
Other habitats in its models (15)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (12)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Summer and winter.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer and winter.
Northeast (3)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Summer and winter.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale 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 its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Swamps

Birds 118

Plants 237

All of swamps in Louisiana

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 128

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 91

Plants 25

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources