Purple martins are one of Mississippi's favorite birds and they are already arriving in the state. Although it's a much-anticipated event for many Mississippians, how much do they know about these ...

More than 100,000 purple martins roosted at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2020 and 2021. Nashville tried everything from bird calls to falcons to convince the martins to choose another roost.

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 ...

Robin Donaldson would not call herself a “birder” in the classic sense of someone who observes and identifies wild birds in their habitats. But last spring, the Ashland industrial engineer flew to ...