Wonder why your neighbor is hanging gourds up? Or why there appears to be an undulating donut on the weather radar? The answer to both is the purple martin. The largest swallow in North America, male ...

This video shows hundreds of thousands of purple martins swarming throughout downtown Nashville, Tennessee, last summer. Each night for several weeks, onlookers gathered in the Tennessee Titans ...

Tony Davis Aug 3, 2024 Aug 3, 2024 Updated Sep 8, 2025 A small, iridescent, purple-tinged bird darted from Joe Siegrist’s just-unclasped hands, and quickly flew out of human view. “Ooh!” an onlooker ...