Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple martins are flying back to Pennsylvania from Brazil. The Purple Martin Conservation Association in Erie reports the first ...

Robin Donaldson would not call herself a “birder” in the classic sense of someone who observes and identifies wild birds in their habitats. But last spring, the Ashland industrial engineer flew to ...

Purple Martins are one of the most magical aerial creatures — they can catch raindrops and flying insects like dragonflies while in flight themselves. But these aerial insectivores are also a sure ...

They’re topped by what looks like old-fashioned TV antennas, ringed with plastic gourd-shaped cavities and elevated off the ground on aluminum poles. These are condos for purple martins, a type of ...

ESCANABA, MI – Joe Kaplan spun a crank handle around and around as a large, wooden birdhouse inched its way toward the ground, where he unlatched the front access and peered inside. Two purple martin ...

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 ...