Purple martin - Wikipedia
The purple martin (Progne subis) is a passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It is the largest swallow in North America. Despite its name, the purple martin is not truly purple.
Purple Martin Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of …
In eastern North America during the summer, look for Purple Martins around martin houses, the miniature condominiums that many people put up in yards. The birds are more challenging to find in the West, where they nest in woodpecker holes in dead snags.
Purple Martin | Audubon Field Guide
Graceful in flight, musical in its pre-dawn singing, this big swallow is one of our most popular birds. Almost all Purple Martins in the east now nest in birdhouses put up especially for them. Martin...
Purple Martin Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of …
Purple Martins are very large, broad-chested swallows. They have stout, slightly hooked bills, short, forked tails, and long, tapered wings. Smaller than an American Robin; larger than a Tree Swallow. Adult males are iridescent, dark blue-purple overall with brown-black wings and tail.
Purple Martin - American Bird Conservancy
The Purple Martin, North America's largest swallow, is a swift and skilled flyer: The birds eat, drink, and even bathe on the wing. The species is part of a group of birds known as aerial insectivores—birds that feed on airborne insects—which includes swifts, swallows, the Chuck-will's-widow, and the Olive-sided Flycatcher, to name a few.
Purple Martin Life History - All About Birds
Purple Martins forage over towns, cities, parks, open fields, dunes, streams, wet meadows, beaver ponds, and other open areas. In eastern North America they used to breed along forest edges and rivers, where dead snags offered woodpecker holes to nest in.
Purple Martin - eBird
Distinctive north of Mexico, where it is the largest swallow. Adult males are dark overall with a purplish-blue iridescence visible at close range. Females are grayer with iridescence on the crown and back, and variable splotchy patterning on the underparts. Immatures lack any purplish color and have a whiter belly.
Purple Martin - Description, Habitat, Image, Diet, and Interesting …
Everything you should know about the Purple Martin. The Purple Martin is the largest swallow species in the world. It's not purple, however, but blue!
Purple Martin | John James Audubon's Birds of America
Purple Martin. The Purple Martin makes its appearance in the City of New Orleans from the 1st to the 9th of February, occasionally a few days earlier than the first of these dates, and is then to be seen gambolling through the air, over the city and the river, feeding on many sorts of insects, which are there found in abundance at that period.
Purple Martin - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
The Purple martin (Progne subis) is the largest swallow in North America. These birds are known for their speed, agility, and their characteristic mix of rapid flapping and gliding flight pattern. When approaching their nesting site, they dive from the sky at great speeds with their wings tucked.
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