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

Abilene, Addison, Amarillo, Archer City, Arlington, Bandera, Bangs, Bastrop, Bay City, Baytown, Beaumont, Beeville,
Bellaire, Belton, Big Spring, Blanco, Boerne, Brady, Breckenridge, Brenham, Brigdeport, Brownfield, Brownsville,
Brownwood, Bryan, Buda, Bulverde, Burkburnett, Burnet, Canton, Carrollton, Cedar Park, Childress, Cleburne, College
Station, Columbus, Corpus Christi, Corsicana, Cotulla, Crystal City, Daingerfield, Dallas, Decatur, Del Rio, Denison,
Devine, Denton, Dripping Springs, 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, Helotes, Henderson, Henrietta, Hereford, Houston, Huntington, Huntsville, Hutto, Iowa
Park, Irving, Jacksboro, Jacksonville, Jonestown, Katy, Kemah, 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, Marshall, Mason, McAllen,
McKinney, Mesquite, Midland, Mineral Wells, Missouri City, Mount Pleasant, Nacogdoches, New Braunfels, Nocona,
Odessa, Ozona, Palestine, Paris, Pasadena, Pflugerville, Plainview, Pleasanton, Port Arthur, Port Isabel, Port Lavaca,
Richardson, Richland Hills, Robstown, Rockport, Rosenberg, Round Rock, San Angelo, San Antonio, San Marcus,
Seadrift, Seguin, Seymour, Sherman, Spicewood, Stephenville Sulphur Springs, Smithville, Sonora, Temple, Terrell,
The Woodlands, Tyler, Uvalde, Vernon, Victoria, Waco, Waxahachie, Weatherford
Purple Martin Propagators TM
(512) 825-4712                Supplying Your Outdoor Birding Needs
Female Purple Martin with Insects
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 5" X 5" square (25 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.
Click to view bat houses
Bat Tower
Purple Martin Eggs inside PolyGourd
The Martins have begun their flight back to North America!!!
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!!!
Purple martin houses were widely given as holiday gifts this year.
It's the gift that keeps on giving, year after year. By providing the
purple martins with a place to live, they will give us an
all-natural
form of insect control, the perfect winning combination for all.

WE BOOKED 28 NEW INSTALLATIONS AT THE AUSTIN HOME &
GARDEN SHOW THIS LAST WEEKEND. FOR ALL OF YOU WHO
PURCHASED THESE NEW SYSTEMS, WE WILL BE SCHEDULING
YOUR INSTALLATION OVER THE NEXT 2 WEEKS. THANKS.