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Attracting Purple Martins to Your Property


How to Attract Purple Martins

Houses and gourds should be white, or a light color. White housing attracts martins best and reflects sunlight, keeping nestlings cooler. Cavity floor ...

Attracting Purple Martins to Your Property - MU Extension

Purple martins can be attracted to a variety of home, park and farm landscapes through the use of nest boxes that are properly constructed and located in open ...

Requirements to attract - Chuck's Purple Martin Page

Martins drink and bathe on the wing. Therefore, your chances to attract them improve if there is clean, open water somewhat near the site, within a half mile if ...

How To Attract Purple Martins To Your Yard - Southern Living

The best way to attract Purple Martins is to utilize a Purple Martin house that is a multi-room home on a pole that includes perch rods, ...

How to Attract Purple Martins to Your Garden - 2024 - MasterClass

Purple martins are known for displaying impressive aerial acrobatics and keeping pesky bugs at bay.

Attracting Purple Martins to Your Backyard - Songbird Station

Purple Martins prefer large, natural water sources such as ponds, lakes or streams. They drink by scooping their bills into the water as they pass by, so if you ...

How to Identify and Attract a Purple Martin - Birds and Blooms

The secret to attracting purple martins is to set up multichambered nest boxes near open areas for them to raise their young. Place a purple ...

How Do You Attract Purple Martins?

Place a few pine needles or cedar shavings in the units. This is good starter material for the purple martin to get started on their nest.

Tips on attracting Martins to my house.....HELP - Page 2

remove the starling nest/eggs and destroy them. Trap the starlings for sure. Destroy them too. They won't exhibit the rage a sparrow male will. What size are ...

How to Attract Purple Martins to Your Garden

Purple martins are the largest member of the swallow family to call North America home. They're nearly 8 inches long and have a wingspan of 15.4 to 16.1 inches.

How to Attract Purple Martins - YouTube

Purple Martins are 100% dependent on human beings to provide them with nesting sites! It's true. These beautifully, acrobatic birds are ...

Ten Reasons Why People Fail to Attract Purple Martins

If any other species is allowed to settle into a martin house before martins at unestablished sites, those houses will rarely attract nesting martins. This ...

Purple Martin Tips

With that in mind, start by looking for a place to put the housing within about 30 - 60 feet of your house, if possible. They actually prefer to be close to ...

Attracting Purple Martins – Family Plot - YouTube

Purple martins are a kind of swallow that live around humans. Mary Schmidt from Lichterman Nature Center talks about how to attract these ...

How to Attract Purple Martins to Your Landscape | Mississippi State ...

These birds have become quite dependent on gourds and houses for nesting. If you want them to come to your yard, it's best to provide at least four separate ...

Attracting Purple Martins - Wild Bird Feeder and Accessory Store

A good Purple Martin landlord is one that will manage the house, lowering the nest box weekly to evict unwanted bird species and make certain all is going well.

How to Attract Purple Martins to Your Backyard - Birdertown

A great way to entice these birds to your backyard is to invest in a purple martin house. These large houses last for a long time and are easy to clean with ...

Attracting and Maintaining a Colony of Purple Martins

Tree Encroachment: If the trees and shrubs in your yard grow taller and closer to the martin house, it will decrease the open area available in ...

Purple Martins for Beginners

It is believed that purple martins are aware that a white birdhouse may indicate housing for them and help attract them. Darker purple martin houses are ...

Attracting Purple Martins to the Landscape - YouTube

(4/27/13) Wildlife Diversity Biologist Mark Howery joins Oklahoma Gardening host Kim Toscano to discuss how to attract purple martins into ...


Attracting & Managing Purple Martins