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 ...

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 ...

Franklin and Bethany Bidinger, who live near Clinton Lake, eagerly await the spring arrival of purple martins to their home, where they have dozens of painted gourd houses for the birds. The purple ...

Inside an artificial gourd hanging from an aluminum rack, a female purple martin sits on her eggs while her mate perches in the doorway to their human-made home in Erie. Meanwhile, 35 people watch.

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 ...

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 ...

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