Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens Ridgway, 1874:198
Dusky seaside sparrow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ammospiza nigrescens Ridgway, 1874; Ammospiza maritima nigrescens Ridgway, 1874
Probably valid as Ammospiza maritima nigrescens
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 16 June 1987
Dusky seaside sparrows only live on in the genes of hybrids with other subspecies (Avise & Nelson, 1989).
Distribution
Florida, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Photographer: P W Sykes (year unknown). Source: https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/3736 (public domain)
Audio recordings:
These were analysed by (Ryan, 2020).
References
Original scientific description:
Ridgway. (1874). [Description of Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens]. Bull. Essex Inst. 12: 198.
Other references:
American Ornithologists’ Union [AOU]. (1931). Check-list of North American Birds, fourth edition. American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington.
American Ornithologists’ Union [AOU]. (1973). Thirty-second supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 90: 411-419.
Anonymous. (1964). List of rare birds, including those thought to be so but of which detailed information is still lacking. IUCN Bulletin 10(Special Supplement): 4 pp.
Avise, John C. and Nelson, William S. (1989). Molecular genetic relationships of the extinct Dusky Seaside Sparrow. Science 243: 646-648.
Beecher, W. J. (1955). Late Pleistocene isolation of salt-marsh sparrows. Ecology 36: 23-28
Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.
Elphick, Chris S., Roberts, David L. and Reed, J. Michael. (2010). Estimated dates of recent extinctions for North American and Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 143: 617-624.
Hardy, J. W. (1983). Geographic variation in the primary song of the Seaside Sparrow, pp. 95-98. In: T.L. Quay, J.B. Funderburg, D.S. Lee, E.F. Potter, and C.S. Robbins, eds. The Seaside Sparrow: Its Biology and Management. Occasional Papers of the North Carolina Biological Survey, Raleigh.
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Rising, James D. (2005). Ecological and Genetic Diversity in the Seaside Sparrow. Birding 37(5): 490-496.
Roberts, D. L. and Jarić, I. (2016). Inferring extinction in North American and Hawaiian birds in the presence of sighting uncertainty. PeerJ 4: e2426.
Ryan, Robert M. (2020). Rangewide variation in the song of Seaside Sparrows (Ammospiza maritima). Masters Thesis, Austin Peay State University.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
Sykes, P. W. (1980). Decline and disappearance of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow from Merritt Island, Florida. American Birds 34: 728-737.
Trost, C. H. (1968). Dusky seaside sparrow, pp. 859-868. In: A.C. Bent, O.L. Austin, Jr., eds. Life histories of North American cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows, and allies. U.S. National Museum Bulletin; Washington, D.C.
USFWS. 1990. Final Rule to Delist the Dusky Seaside Sparrow and Remove its Critical Habitat Designation. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, December 12, 1990, 55 FR 51112.
Walters, Mark Jerome. (1992). A Shadow and a Song – The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species. Post Mills, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
Zink, Robert M. and Kale, Herbert W. (1995). Conservation genetics of the extinct dusky seaside sparrow Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens. Biological Conservation 74(1): 69-71. [Abstract]