These birds, North America's largest swallow species, travel up to 7,000 miles and play a crucial role in controlling insect populations. Purple martin populations have declined sharply in recent ...

The first purple martins of the year have been spotted in South Dakota, marking the start of spring migration. These birds travel up to 7,000 miles from Brazil to their breeding grounds in North ...

This video shows hundreds of thousands of purple martins swarming throughout downtown Nashville, Tennessee, last summer. Each night for several weeks, onlookers gathered in the Tennessee Titans ...

Purple martins, a glossy black and purple swallow species that migrates to South America for the winter, have been sighted in ...

In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in Tennessee. The birds were seen on Feb. 4 in Hornbeak by a Purple Martin enthusiast – one of many ...

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 ...