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 ...

Watching the purple martins return to Bomb Island on Lake Murray is one of South Carolina's most unforgettable wildlife ...

Purple martins will soon migrate south for their usual wintertime retreat, but this time the birds will be wearing what look like little backpacks, as scientists plan to track their roosting sites ...

The Travis Audubon Society says a Round Rock shopping center has approved this summer's free purple martin bird-watching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A finch taking petals from a zinnia flower - Melissa Burovac/Getty A downside that might make you rethink putting a bird feeder in ...

Thousands of visitors cross the William B. Umstead Memorial Bridge—known locally as Old Manns Harbor Bridge—on their way to Roanoke Island and the Outer Banks every year. But from mid-July through ...

"I'm part bird," John Gerwin chuckled, as he guided a group of volunteers and children through the process of tracking the Purple Martin bird at the Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh. "I've had ...

When a historic winter storm froze Texas in February 2021, thousands of birds died almost overnight. Now researchers say the disaster may have wiped out more than a quarter of some local bird ...

If you see black and purple birds flitting about your yard this spring, you may be witnessing the return of purple martins to Michigan. Purple martins arrived in Michigan on March 31, sighted in ...