I am no stranger to traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles to see, study and document some of nature’s most wonderful events. For over 35 years I have traveled to see the epic migration of ...

The Kratt brothers fly after a purple martin to watch their eating and nesting habits. The Kratt brothers follow a purple martin to the river where they watch him feeding on hatching mayflies. Later, ...

Dick Nikolai of Appleton spent his professional career dedicated to Wisconsin's wildlife, including animals tiny and large, abundant and endangered and game and non-game. But in retirement he's ...

GREENWICH — The town of Greenwich is preparing for the return of the purple martins as the birds migrate north this spring. Jake Buckanavage, an intern with the Greenwich Inland Wetlands & ...

Purple martins are moving in. They are arriving to occupy multiunit nest boxes that Houston-area residents have installed to welcome them. Before Europeans arrived in North America, Native Americans ...

SEQUIM — Sequim High School agriculture students recently wrapped up three weeks of building 14 Purple Martin nesting boxes by turning them over to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife for ...

Imagine the feeling of always knowing where you are going without a fear of being lost. While that’s a foreign concept for many humans, purple martins are able to travel thousands of miles and they ...

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Imagine going on a vacation to Brazil and then coming home to find your house missing. That’s what a colony of purple martins might face next year when the birds return to Tacoma after a long flight ...

Every year, bird enthusiasts hang groups of plastic gourds for purple martins to nest in Erica Royer Look up during the summer in eastern or southeastern North America, and you may spot a purple ...

Purple martins are the agony and the ecstasy of suburban and rural backyard birders. They are an agony for many who have erected beautiful martin houses with the hopes of attracting these beneficial ...