![]() Painting of Native Americans with purple martins thanks to Purple Martin Conservation AssociationĪttract Purple Martins with their own Songs! Images of birds in flight ©Michael and Diane Porter SuperGourds - the best housing for purple martins How to Succeed as a Purple Martin Landlord Right in the middle of our business districts. They trustingly raise their young in our backyards and towns, sometimes They insist on being within about 30 to 100 feet of human habitation. They nest only in human-provided housing, and Purple martins in eastern US, however, have undergoneĪ total tradition shift. Other birds, such as wrensĪnd bluebirds, also use birdhouses, but they continue to nest in the traditional It's remarkable how completely the birds have accepted ![]() (It's what we now use at Birdwatching Dot Com.) ![]() The chamber is much larger than most birdhouse gourds. This man-made housing emulates the best characteristics of natural gourds. A breakthrough in martin housing is the SuperGourd. Hobbyists now maintain martin houses, keeping alive an ancient tradition When the first European settlers arrived and learnedĪbout the friendly birds, they built birdhouses for them also, and NorthĪmericans have been hosting purple martins ever since. On the branches of bare saplings to attract purple martins. Other tribes of Native American copied the practice.Įarly reports say that the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes mounted gourds They found the purple martins fun to watch, and they appreciated the insectįrom the purple martins' point of view, the villageĬommotion gave them some protection from owls and snakes, which will eat baby purple martins if they get the chance. Other villagersĪlso began hanging gourds near their homes to attract the beautiful birds. Gobbling flies and entertaining everyone with their music. Soon a small colony of birds was gliding around the village, Was hanging in the same place, or maybe she put up two or three. And maybe they loved the birds' exhilarating Maybe she liked how the birds caught and ate the flies Maybe the birds' happy-sounding, gurgling songs appealed Guess that somewhere, sometime, a few centuries ago or more, a NativeĪmerican hung up a hollow gourd at the top of a pole, and a pair of purple And then they completely changed their habits. Long ago, purple martins nested in hollow trees, with They raise their young only in special birdhouses
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