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

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024