Appropriately named, the seaside sparrow is a salt marsh specialist with 9 recognized subspecies throughout its range along the Eastern and Gulf coasts of North America. One subspecies, the dusky seaside sparrow (A. m. nigrescens), became extinct in 1987 when the last remaining individual in captivity died.
Confidence votes 9.9K. Canada's prairies are huge world suppliers of wheat, canola and other grains. Canada is the world's largest producer of zinc and uranium and a world leader in many other natural resources such as gold, nickel, aluminum and lead. Timber is also a major natural resource.
Also depicted are the locations of significant metallurgical facilities across Canada. The data in this map are based on Natural Resources Canada's annual Map 900A â Principal mineral areas, producing mines, and oil and gas fields in Canada. This map, published annually by Natural Resources Canada, provides the geographic locations of principal producing metallic, nonmetallic, and industrial mineral mines, oil sands mines, and oil and gas fields for the provinces and territories of Canada.