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In reconstructed prairie with a pond nearby
The martin colony at Montezuma NWR was doing well, with the houses filled up.
A sub-adult Purple Martin returns home in my backyard.
Purple Martins coming home to a crooked nesting box.
Medium-sized dark blue birds with a small black bill, long wings, and a notched ...
This is the eastern subspecies of the purple martin, the largest North American ...
Several other swallows were flying around (barn swallow and mangrove swallow) ...
I love our purple martins, It's always so great to see their fledglings learn ...
Young Martin perched on a snag, and receiving a meal of dragonfly from a parent.
dark purple bird(male) that nests in colonies. There are several boxes at the ...
I found this little guy on the toolbox on my Dad's truck. Does anyone know what ...
Males are dark all over, females have the light undersides. They are acrobatic ...
This was the first time I'd actually seen Purple Martins up close. I didn't ...
The largest of the North American swallows, the males appear entirely black but ...
This guy had a gray belly and the back was brown and purple.
These immatures are very dark all over, but not quite the iridescent purple of ...
The neighbors in this particular house by the park had a martin house in their ...
Purple martins are a kind of swallow. There was a large group of juveniles ...
Eastern Purple martin arrives in this area mid May and normally settle into the ...
This bird is a large swallow with the male being dark blue with white ...
