Wonder why your neighbor is hanging gourds up? Or why there appears to be an undulating donut on the weather radar? The answer to both is the purple martin. The largest swallow in North America, male ...

If you see black and purple birds flitting about your yard this spring, you may be witnessing the return of purple martins to Michigan. Purple martins arrived in Michigan on March 31, sighted in ...

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium has installed new nest boxes to help attract Purple Martins back to Tacoma, hoping to revive a local colony crucial for pest control.

"I'm part bird," John Gerwin chuckled, as he guided a group of volunteers and children through the process of tracking the Purple Martin bird at the Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh. "I'm part bird ...

Robin Donaldson would not call herself a “birder” in the classic sense of someone who observes and identifies wild birds in their habitats. But last spring, the Ashland industrial engineer flew to ...

Purple martin scouts began showing up in Houston a few weeks ago, prompting my wife, Kathy Adams Clark, and I to get our martin house in order. We pulled it down from its pole, uncapped the apartment ...

Erie, PA — In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in South Carolina. The birds were seen on February 7 in the town of Hanahan by a Purple ...

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