A small blue-purple bird often seen throughout the state during the spring has started to trickle back into Kentucky, but birdwatchers may be seeing less of the species in the future. The world’s ...

"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'm part bird ...

Purple martins, famously finicky, scorn handsome nest boxes mounted by well-intentioned folks, leaving the fancy abodes to starlings and sparrows. Designer apartments rust, languish into eyesores and ...

Every summer, thousands of purple martins fly into Texas to roost and fuel up on insects before heading to South America for the winter. More than 200,000, and sometimes up to 500,000 of the songbirds ...