The first purple martins of the year have been spotted in South Dakota, marking the start of spring migration. These birds travel up to 7,000 miles from Brazil to their breeding grounds in North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple martins are flying back to Pennsylvania from Brazil. The Purple Martin Conservation Association in Erie reports the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

This video shows hundreds of thousands of purple martins swarming throughout downtown Nashville, Tennessee, last summer. Each night for several weeks, onlookers gathered in the Tennessee Titans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — Since 1912, The Allen Bird Club in Springfield has been starting its meetings with excited members telling the group about rare sightings of special birds — the veery, scarlet tanager or ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - The sunsets over Lake Murray are surely a sight to see, but during the summer months there's another spectacle to behold. It's the season of the Purple Martins, and they've come ...

I have been shivering a lot this morning. I am tired of cold weather. For some reason (Brrrr) I thought of purple martins. They are a sure harbinger of spring. In front of my office/retail outlet we ...