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The Wildlife Center of Virginia is warning people who like to feed birds to be on the lookout. An eye disease that can prove ...

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The annual migration of purple martins from Brazil to Pennsylvania has started. Here's what to know about these birds.

In 1996, the nonprofit Purple Martin Conservation Association first detected purple martins in Nashville on weather radar. Over the following years, the martins, thought to number in the tens of ...

Two mourning doves fed with the turkeys. Three kinds of finches arrived to dine on thistle seeds: goldfinch, purple finch and redpoll. None are uncommon, but slow to appear this winter.

In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first purple martins of the year have been spotted in Indiana.

So I followed them,” said Hansen. “I’m taking this detour to see if we could get purple finches down here,” John Wise said. Wise of Metairie says he is a lifelong bird watcher.