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Baby purple martins eager for a meal. These baby Purple Martins are just a few days away from taking
their first flight. In the audio (2 minutes long) you can hear adult birds happily singing. The parents of these birds arrive and feed them. At
the end, something scares the birds and you hear the babies scuttling back inside for safety as the adults give alarm calls
and fly away. Note the special doors. These birds are in North Texas which gets hot in the summertime. The special doors provide extra
ventilation while also excluding larger starlings.
After a snack the birds take a siesta while they wait for the next
food delivery.
Fledgling Purple Martins at a lake near a pre-migration roost in Tulsa, Oklahoma bathing on the wing. Large numbers of martins gather at some pre-migration roosts; so many that they show up on weather radar.
After bathing the martins gather to preen in a nearby tree.
Find out where there might be a martin roost near you.
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