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 ...

Every summer, thousands of purple martins fly into Texas to roost and fuel up on insects before heading to South America for the winter. More than 200,000, and sometimes up to 500,000 of the songbirds ...

The purple martin is the largest swallow in North America. Males are all dark, glossy blue-black; females and immatures duller above and grayish below. The purple martin is an extremely popular and ...

No one is more excited about the annual return of purple martins than the second-graders at Meadow Wood Elementary on Memorial Drive. With a $500 mini-grant from the Spring Branch Educational ...

Dick Nikolai of Appleton spent his professional career dedicated to Wisconsin's wildlife, including animals tiny and large, abundant and endangered and game and non-game. But in retirement he's ...

Purple martins arriving to Pennsylvania from the Amazon are in a "housing crisis." Here's how some are trying to help these birds.

A small blue-purple bird often seen throughout the state during the spring has started to trickle back into Kentucky, but birdwatchers may be seeing less of the species in the future. The world’s ...

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.