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Purple martins are a very beautiful and friendly native bird and will need all the help you can give them. On this site, you will read about housing accessibility, why doing nest checks are important, protecting them from predators and defending them from other pest birds and you have to be prepared to deal with all these things.
Before we get into raising purple martins in gourds, if you are not totally familiar with the rules for attracting and keeping purple martins and if you have not already done so, I suggest you take a look at my Purple Martin Page.
The Purple Martin is considered to be America's most wanted bird. The interaction between man and martin dates all the way back to the Native Americans. To this day, the purple martin, with its bubbly personality and gurgling song, is cherished by many that host them.
Purple Martin Forum. The internet's gathering place for Purple Martin enthusiasts!
Purple Martin Sites Warren Light’s The Purple Martin Site has lots of great, well written information on North America’s best songbird. Chuck Abare’s Purple Martin Page Find Loads of information about Purple Martins.
You've probably either heard or read all kinds of claims about which different materials and shapes are best suited to be used as a pole to hold up purple martin housing, but no one ever goes into the actual numbers proving it.
They form huge roosts (of several hundred thousand birds) in late summer along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. Others may fly over Mexico and through Central America. Purple Martins are probably leisurely migrants that fly only during the day and forage as they go.
