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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you see black and purple birds flitting about your yard this spring, you may be witnessing the return of purple martins to Michigan. Purple martins arrived in Michigan on March 31, sighted in ...

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. Jason Geesey, Richland's parks and recreation foreman, put up purple martin houses in Great Blue Heron Park on March 9. The ...

The first Purple Martins of the season have been spotted in Massachusetts, signaling the start of their migration. Purple Martins, North America's largest swallow, have seen their population decline ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...