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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OSHKOSH – Winnebago Audubon and Wild Ones Fox Valley Area Chapter are hosting a program about purple martins, a colony-nesting bird known for devouring insects like lake flies and mosquitoes. The ...

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 ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - A unique group of travelers has landed in Panama City, but you may not hear their engines or see a boarding pass. Instead, they flap their way in from thousands of ...

Purple martin populations have dropped 33% in the last 50 years because of habitat loss and competition from invasive, non-native birds, including English house sparrows and European starlings, ...

My wife, Kathy Adams Clark, and I scurried out to the backyard the first week in January to clean our purple martin house. Because scouts for the largest and arguably the most handsome swallows in ...

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 ...

Purple martins, members of the swallow family, are native songbirds. East of the Rocky Mountains, they now rely entirely on human-provided housing. In late summer, they gather in massive flocks — ...

PITTSBURGH — One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above the fields and their condos at Harrison Hills Park. Nesting in ...