How to Use purple martin in a Sentence

purple martin

noun
  • The decline of purple martins is part of a bigger problem.
    Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The drop in fat could affect when purple martins are able to reproduce.
    Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The purple martin young are emerging from their apartment nests.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 July 2020
  • By the middle of May, there are usually more than 100 purple martins at Nikolai's colony.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
  • An effective strategy is to put up a purple martin apartment complex on a pole about 14 feet in the air in an open part of your yard.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Refreshments will be available, and, a drawing will be held for two purple martin bird houses to be given away.
    cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
  • People who host purple martin colonies are taking action to keep their neighbors alive.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The purple martins that nested in the San Antonio area have assembled and begun their trip to South America for the winter.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Two early barn swallows were reported in Chatham and a very early purple martin was in Mashpee.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Last year was a tough year for purple martin families in our area because of the difficult weather conditions.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Folks with houses for purple martins have reported visits by small groups of the interesting birds.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • By late June, your purple martin community will have produced their young for the year and the new and old generations will organize for their migration back to Brazil.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Usually the purple martin will tolerate the intervention and the starling may leave.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Such species include the scarlet tanager, purple martin and Baltimore oriole.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2022
  • The retailer Wild Birds Unlimited is also a useful source of information on setting up and managing purple martin housing.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Birdhouses and bird feeders are so thoroughly part of human culture that purple martins in eastern North America nest almost exclusively in houses made by humans.
    Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Recent research has revealed that purple martins rely on larger insects for their food, including dragonflies; and dragonflies eat many more mosquitoes than martins do.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2023

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