Purple Martins
May 11th, 2008 by Rick Wright
A rich, deep warble just now announced the arrival of Purple Martins in the neighborhood. Unlike eastern populations, our southwestern martins are the last of the hirundinids to arrive in spring, and they set up housekeeping as scattered pairs in saguaros and cottonwoods rather than breed colonially in boxes.
Only Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher make us wait longer, and even they will be here in the next week or so.
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