Ammospiza maritima
- 20.9 × 15.5 mm
- Clutch: 2–5 eggs
Breeds in United States, Mexico
Bluish white to grayish white, speckled and blotched with shades of brown, often more heavily on larger end.
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 50 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows, and Allies (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 237, Part 2, 1968), p. 822.
- Description
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Seaside Sparrow, Life History.
- Clutch
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds.
- Shape
- Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).
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