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| Welcome to our Birding Web-Site! Purple Martin Propagators main reason for being in business is to teach you about Purple Martins and their needs so that you can become a good Purple Martin Landlord and ambassador for this special species of bird that we have here in North America. Purple Martin Propagators is here to help you establish new colonies of purple martins and bats or get you the Information to manage an existing Purple Martin Colony. After looking at all of the pages in this site, please feel free to use the "Contact Us" to give your input as to what we can do better to improve this web site. Danny Sinclair - Owner - Purple Martin Propagators |
| PURPLE MARTIN PROPAGATORS WE WORK FROM BASES IN AUSTIN & WICHITA FALLS. WE TRAVEL ALL OVER THE STATE OF TEXAS TO INSTALL OUR PURPLE MARTIN HOUSING SYSTEMS. HERE IS A LIST OF THE TEXAS CITIES WHERE YOU WILL SEE OUR PURPLE MARTIN HOUSING SYSTEMS. IF WE'VE FORGOTTEN TO INCLUDE YOUR CITY, PLEASE TELL US THROUGH THE "CONTACT US" LINK AND WE WILL ADD IT TO THE LIST. Abilene, Addison, Alpine, Amarillo, Archer City, Arlington, Bandera, Bangs, Bastrop, Bay City, Baytown, Beaumont, Beeville, Bellaire, Belton, Big Bend, Big Spring, Blanco, Bloomington, Boerne, Brackettville, Brady, Breckenridge, Brenham, Brigdeport, Brownfield, Brownsville, Brownwood, Bryan, Buda, Bulverde, Burkburnett, Burnet, Canton, Carrizo Springs, Carrollton, Castroville, Cedar Park, Childress, Cleburne, College Station, Columbus, Comfort, Corpus Christi, Corsicana, Cotulla, Crystal City, Cuero, Daingerfield, Dallas, Decatur, Del Rio, Denison, Devine, Denton, Dripping Springs, Eagle Lake, Edinburg, El Campo, Electra, Elgin, Ennis, Euless, Farmers Branch, Fort Stockton, Fort Worth, Fredericksburg, Freeport, Gainseville, Galveston, Garland, Georgetown, Giddings, Gonzales, Grand Prarie, Hallettsville, Haltom, Harlingen, Harper, Helotes, Henderson, Henrietta, Hereford, Hondo, Houston, Huntington, Huntsville, Hutto, Ingleside, Iowa Park, Irving, Jacksboro, Jacksonville, Jonestown, Juarez, Junction, Katy, Kemah, Kenedy, Kerrville, Kilgore, Kingsville, Killeen, Kyle, Lake Jackson, Lakeway, La Grange, Lampasas, Lancaster, Laredo, Leander, Lewisville, Liberty Hill, Livingston, Llano, Lockhart, Lometa, Longview, Lubbock, Lufkin, Luling, Manor, Mansfield, Marble Falls, Marfa, Marshall, Mason, McAllen, McKinney, Mesquite, Midland, Mineral Wells, Missouri City, Mount Pleasant, Nacogdoches, New Braunfels, Nocona, Odessa, Ozona, Palestine, Paris, Pasadena, Pearsall, Pflugerville, Plainview, Pleasanton, Point Comfort, Port Aransas, Port Arthur, Port Isabel, Port Lavaca, Portland, Richardson, Richland Hills, Rio Grande City, Robstown, Rockport, Rocksprings, Rosenberg, Round Rock, Sabinal, San Angelo, San Antonio, San Benito, San Marcus, Schulenburg, Seadrift, Seguin, Seymour, Sherman, Sinton, Spicewood, Stephenville Sulphur Springs, Smithville, Sonora, Stockdale, Temple, Terrell, The Woodlands, Three Rivers, Tyler, Uvalde, Van Horn, Vernon, Victoria, Waco, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Wharton, Zapata |
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| This female purple martin is bringing back insects she caught while flying to feed her young. All of our Purple Martin Bird House Installations use the PolyGourd which is made of polyethylene and stays much cooler than metal houses. In the northern states where it doesn't get as hot, aluminum is an inexpensive material that works fine for raising young birds in. However, in the southern states (from Texas over to Florida), temperatures have been measured up to 138 degrees inside the aluminum houses, with around 40%-60% of the eggs being COOKED and never even hatching. The other problem with the "Condominium Style" multi-level purple martin houses is that the compartments are usually 6" X 6" square (36 square inches of floor space) which only allow the females to lay 3-4 eggs a year instead of the usual 7-8 eggs they had been laying in the larger gourds (80-100 square inches of floor space). Here at Purple Martin Propagators we are doing our best to replace these aluminum houses with much larger and cooler PolyGourds that allow more babies to fledge every year. |
| Photo taken through the clean-out opening of a PolyGourd showing purple martin eggs laying on a bed of green leaves and small twigs and branches the birds bring in for nesting material. |
| Our Bat Conservation International Certified BAT TOWER is much better than the traditional wooden bat houses being sold in stores. Individual bat species are part of the family called chiroptera. |
| NEW ON OUR SITE PURPLE MARTIN MANAGEMENT GUIDE This takes several minutes to download, so be patient and save to your desktop |
| The Purple Martin Scouts are back in the Southern States!!! The new year is upon us. Now is the time to have your new Purple Martin Housing System installed and ready for the return of America's Most Wanted Back Yard Bird, the Purple Martin!!! |
| We are receiving calls from many well-established purple martin landlords that are using the metal condo-style purple martin houses telling us that over the last 2 VERY HOT summers, few if any of the eggs laid in their bird houses made it to fledglings!!! |
| Come visit our booth at the Zilker Garden Festival March 27 & 28 on Barton Springs Road in downton Austin!!! See you there!!! |