Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Emberizidae > Ammodramus > Ammodramus maritimusAmmodramus maritimus (Seaside Sparrow)Synonyms: Ammodramus maritima maritima; Ammospiza maritima; Fringilla maritima Language: Spanish The seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) is a small American sparrow. Adults have brownish upperparts with gray on the crown and nape, and a grayish-buff colored breast with dark streaks; they have a dark face with gray cheeks, a white throat, and a short pointed tail. Birds show a small yellow streak just above the eye. Their breeding habitat is salt marshes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States from southern New Hampshire to southern Texas. The nest is an open cup usually built in the salt marsh on tidal reeds and spartina grasses. Females lay two to five eggs. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.8953 EDGE Score: 1.58827 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 23 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Coastal saltmarshes | | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Coastal saltmarshes | | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 10 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 90 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 5 | | Clutches / Year [4] | 2 | | Fledging [1] | 10 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 410,000 | | Incubation [4] | 12 days | | Mating Display [6] | Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display | | Mating System [6] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [4] | 9 years | | | Female Maturity [4] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [4] | 1 year |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Assateague Island National Seashore |
II |
8621 |
Maryland, United States |
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Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
4842 |
Georgia, United States |
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Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
19192 |
Maryland, United States |
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
16363 |
Delaware, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Cod National Seashore |
II |
21724 |
Massachusetts, United States |
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore |
II |
21476 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Fire Island National Seashore |
V |
9433 |
New York, United States |
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary |
IV |
2387149 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Matanzas National Monument |
III |
269 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument |
V |
4213 |
Georgia, United States |
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Fundy National Park |
II |
52716 |
New Brunswick, Canada |
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Gateway National Recreation Area |
V |
1807 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Little St. Simons Island |
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Georgia, United States |
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Padre Island National Seashore |
II |
42068 |
Texas, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Virginia Coast Biosphere Reserve |
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33386 |
Virginia, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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