Choose the Right Housing: Martins need elevated, multi-compartment homes placed in open areas with clear flight paths. Prep for Spring: Set up birdhouses before the Martins arrive—timing varies by ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Purple martins (Progne subis) are declining in North America and the eastern subspecies is almost fully dependent on human-provided nesting ...

If you build it, they will come. So goes the wisdom — and the hope that if people put up special bird houses, colonies of purple martin birds will return this spring. Five new house were recently ...

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 ...