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.
Canada s freshwater resources are a generous endowment for a country of 35 million people. At the same time, more than 50 percent of it drains northward into Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean. This means that fresh water is unavailable to 85 percent of people living along Canada s southern border. While abundant, the remaining fresh water supply is heavily used. Estimates of Canada s fresh water supply vary from 5.6 percent to 9 percent to 20 percent of the total water supply.