Environmental activism begins locally at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden as it plans to host its first purple martin conservation ...

It’s not like anyone was pulling out a ruler and measuring the distance between bird droppings, but if College Station recreation supervisor Laurie Brown were to guess, she’d say they were an inch ...

As I crested a hill into the aspen-dotted meadows of the Pecos Wilderness, a flock of indigo-colored swallows filled the sky with rolling chirps. Seeing these purple martins felt like a brush with old ...

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 ...

A hawk or an eagle had been circling overhead earlier, so Tom Fiorini wasn’t sure the purple martins would be hanging around Thursday morning as he led a couple of visitors to the birds’ new dwelling ...

For decades, Austinites have flocked to the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, drawn by the insistent pull of a predictable spectacle: the nightly emergence of bats. Now, a new, equally ...

A once-common bird species has found a new home in the Lehigh Valley, establishing a thriving colony at St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township. Purple martins, which migrate ...

A well-beloved backyard bird in our region is the Purple Martin. This large, darkly colored sparrow is a commonly seen visitor in parks, yards, and waterways, especially when there is a Purple Martin ...

Quick! Think of a purple bird! It’s a little difficult, right? I searched my brain and came up with a purple martin. A small bird in the swallow family. But that’s not a satisfying answer because it’s ...

The Purple Martin Conservation Association's nestcam livestreams a purple martin nest in Erie, Pennsylvania. The PMCA uses the nestcam to raise awareness about the birds and their conservation efforts ...

Harrison resident Ken Kostka has worked for years to revitalize the region’s colony of purple martins — the species of bird that vanished from Western Pennsylvania after Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972.

They’re topped by what looks like old-fashioned TV antennas, ringed with plastic gourd-shaped cavities and elevated off the ground on aluminum poles. These are condos for purple martins, a type of ...