Date/Time
Saturday, Jun 26, 2021
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Field Trip Leader:
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Time: 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: Central Virginia (Louisa County) (40 miles west of Richmond)
The 26th Annual Purple Martin Field Day See www.purplemartinfieldday.org
This year, we are scheduling a full program! Plan to arrive before 11:00 a.m. so you won’t miss the Door Prize give-away (including free GOURDS!) and the beginning of the presentations.
Lance Wood and several other speakers will teach you how to get martins, get more martins, and manage them properly so you won’t lose them.
Which martin housing is the safest?—gourds or houses? Do martins like gourds or houses better?
COME AND FIND OUT!!!
Questions? Call Kathy at (434) 222-1831 (You must leave a voicemail; She’ll call you back!)
Purple Martins are the largest swallow in North America. Adult males are a glossy dark purple, and adult females are dark on top with some purple on the back, and lighter underparts.
Their breeding habitat is open areas across eastern North America, and also some locations on the west coast from British Columbia to Mexico.
The eastern nominate race nests exclusively in man-made bird houses, of which about a million are provided. It is the only bird totally dependent on humans for nest sites.
The Purple Martin migrates to the Amazon basin in winter. The first record of this species in Europe was a single bird on Lewis, Scotland on 5-6 September 2004, and the second was on the Azores on 6 September 2004.
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