Purple martins are a birder’s dream. These starling-size birds are a beautiful iridescent indigo, they’re people-friendly, and they eat mosquitoes, beetles, and other bugs. For folks in our neck of ...

Purple martins are one of Mississippi's favorite birds and they are already arriving in the state. Although it's a much-anticipated event for many Mississippians, how much do they know about these ...

Every summer, hundreds of thousands of roosting swallows draw eager crowds to urban parking lots for an unforgettable ...

The Purple Martins are in Houston gathering by the thousands for the return trip home. Every year the songbirds migrate from South America to North America in the spring. As summer comes to an end, ...

Two Purple Martins from the Oregon coast have traveled over 1,500 miles toward their wintering grounds in southeastern Brazil. Despite leaving Oregon one day apart, they have now turned up within ...

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 ...

The large swallows have nested alongside human settlements for centuries. Now, the birds’ breeding success depends on caretakers who are beginning to age out of the role Purple martins are ...

"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've had ...

When a historic winter storm froze Texas in February 2021, thousands of birds died almost overnight. Now researchers say the disaster may have wiped out more than a quarter of some local bird ...

Purple martins, known for their glossy plumage, have returned to Michigan after wintering in South America. The first sightings, known as "scout" birds, were reported in mid-March, marking the ...

If you would like to see more purple martins and chimney swifts in your area, there’s a program underway to provide free habitat structures on public properties in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Game ...