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 ...

Tennis star Naomi Osaka was back in action at Louis Armstong Stadium for her second round match at the 2025 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York City. Osaka, ...

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 ...

Purple martins are gorgeous backyard birds, known for their iridescent feathers and mid-sky acrobatics. As North America’s largest swallows, they are integral to the ecosystem, consuming thousands of ...

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 ...

Francky Knapp is a staff writer at Eater, and an award-winning writer with bylines in GQ, VICE, The Daily Beast, and other publications. A curious home cook with a deep love of Polish cabbage rolls, ...

WIS is celebrating Sunrise anchor Jamal Goss as he heads off to his next adventure. The former director for the Youth Challenge Program at McCrady Training Center was arrested earlier this month for ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Tickets for the annual purple martin tours on Lake Murray will be available for purchase, starting May 30. The event is put on by Carolina Safari Co. and is led by naturalist ...