Purple martin

Learn how to create an inviting environment for purple martins in your backyard. Discover tips and ideas to attract these beautiful birds and enhance your bird-watching experience.
PURPLE MARTIN (Progne subis) -  feeds almost exclusively on flying insects. They may occasionally take insects from the ground. It nests in birdhouses, holes in trees and cactus, or crevices in cliffs and buildings. The nest is made of twigs, plant stems, mud and grasses. They breed throughout temperate North America, in south and south-east Canada, in the whole eastern half of the United States and along the Pacific coast from southern Canada to Mexico. They winter in the Amazon basin. Bird, Nature, Purple Martin, Purple Animals, Martin Bird, Naturaleza, Pretty Birds, Beautiful Birds, Birds Of Paradise

Progne subis Common name: purple martin (en); andorinha-azul (pt); hirondelle noire (fr); golondrina purpúrea (es); purpurschwalbe (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Hirundinidae Range: They breed throughout temperate North America, in south and south-east Canada, in the whole eastern half of the United States and along the Pacific coast from southern Canada down to Mexico. They winter in the Amazon basin, throughout Brazil, north to Colombia and the Guianas, west to Ecuador and Peru…

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Putting up a Purple Martin house is like installing a miniature neighborhood in your backyard. In the East, dark, glossy-blue males and brown females will peer from the entrances and chirp from the rooftops all summer. In the West, martins mainly still nest the old-fashioned way—in woodpecker holes. Our largest swallows, Purple Martins perform aerial acrobatics to snap up flying insects. At the end of the breeding season they gather in big flocks and make their way to South America.

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