GRAND HAVEN — The last pair of purple martins nesting in the gourds at Grand Haven State Park may have a tough time getting their young ready in time for the flight south to the Amazon rainforest.

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 ...

GREENWICH — The town of Greenwich is preparing for the return of the purple martins as the birds migrate north this spring. Jake Buckanavage, an intern with the Greenwich Inland Wetlands & ...

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 ...

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The Martin gourd variety makes an ideal nesting spot for Purple Martins, providing them just the right amount of space to build their nests. Though this particular variety is named for its feathered ...

We’ve been enjoying an unusually warm winter, but that doesn’t mean anything to the purple martins. They start showing up this time of year regardless of the severity of the winter. For them, it’s ...

Centuries before European settlement, the Caddo Indians established farming villages in what would become East Texas, where they no doubt welcomed the annual return of purple martins. Imagine a Caddo ...

Even before daybreak, you can hear them singing their happy sounding songs from inside their swinging gourds. The purple martin song. It will soon be their season. They return every year from their ...

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 ...

Perry Vogel would be the "Purple Martin Man of Grand Forks" if such a title existed. Vogel, you see, is a purple martin landlord. The backyard of his south Grand Forks home hosts a colony that has ...