Wondering what birds can eat? Attract birds with occasional treats that you have stocked in the kitchen. Offer peanut butter, raisins and more.

Purple martins, a species of swallow, used to be commonly seen throughout the Lehigh Valley, but gradually disappeared as farming in the region declined. However, according to Lehigh Valley Live, the ...

You have seen the big apartment-style bird houses on tall poles in some folks' back yards. They are for purple martins, which are the largest swallow, about 7 to 8 inches in length with a wing span of ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tens of thousands of Purple Martins have landed in Nashville as they migrate from as far north as Canada all the way to South America. “The sky is just absolutely full of ...

Purple Martins, which migrate northward from as far south as the Amazon jungle to spend the spring and summer in the United States, were once commonplace in Lehigh and Northampton counties. They ...

For decades, Austinites have flocked to the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, drawn by the insistent pull of a predictable spectacle: the nightly emergence of bats. Now, a new, equally ...

Q. Our purple martins seem to have all left the bird houses in our yard. Is it time to lower the houses? Are the martins heading south? A. Yes, I was shown a film of the martins in San Antonio massed ...

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 ...