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 fresh water resources represent 7 percent of the world s renewable fresh water. About 20 percent of the world fresh water is found in Canada, but less than half of it is considered renewable. Most of the fresh water is in the form of fossil water in glaciers, underground aquifers, and lakes.