Natural gourds or plastic gourds, metal house or wooden house, gourd lines, gourd poles, gourd arms, porches, predator guards, dawn song audio recordings, purple martin decoys. There’s a lot to ...

Every year, bird enthusiasts hang groups of plastic gourds for purple martins to nest in Erica Royer Look up during the summer in eastern or southeastern North America, and you may spot a purple ...

My old aluminum purple martin house has supported generations of purple martin families — but not in the last few years. I’m not sure why the old house lost its appeal to the birds. The house was ...

Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part column by Rick Koval on purple martins. Today's story in Pocono Outdoors is a continuation of last week's article about a very concerned man from ...

Purple martins are indigenous to Cahokia Mounds. This illustration shows how Native Americans might have housed them in gourds. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Visitors are invited to flock to ...

WAUKOMIS — Just call him the purple martin man. More than 20 years ago, George Milacek constructed his first trio tower of aluminum purple martin houses to attract the beloved songbird. Now he has 18 ...

Few people have met Wrigley, but thousands have come to adore her. Wrigley is a female purple martin nesting just outside the Tom Ridge Environmental Center at the entrance to Presque Isle State Park.

A couple years ago, I installed a tiny color camera, complete with audio, inside one of my purple martin houses. This allows me to observe and study the nesting behavior of our largest swallow species ...

In the birding world, few species generate more excitement than does the “Purple Martin,” a swallow that is arriving now in Texas, with reports of “scouts” logged almost daily online. Purple Martins, ...

In the birding world, few species generate more excitement than does the “Purple Martin,” a swallow that is arriving now in Texas, with reports of “scouts” logged almost daily online. Purple Martins, ...