Purple Martin – 5/13/25

Observer: Paul Lauenstein

Observation Date: 5/13/25

Observation Time: 8:50 am

Observation Location: Moose Hill Audubon Farm (S. Main St.)

Common Name: Purle Martin

Scientific Name: Progne subis

Comments:  Build an apartment complex for purple martins, and they will come. Native Americans hung up empty gourds for purple martins before Europeans arrived in North America. Purple martins in eastern North America now nest almost exclusively in birdhouses, while those in the West use mostly natural cavities.

Moose Hill Audubon erected this purple martin nesting complex by their barn on S. Main St.

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