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PURPLE MARTINS: HOW TO ATTRACT THEM & START UP & MONITOR A SUCCESSFUL COLONY! BY: FRANK CATANZARO.

THIS VIDEO IS AN INTRODUCTION TO PURPLE MARTINS: IT ALSO SHARES A BRIEF HISTORY ON THEM, AND OFFERS TIPS ON HOW TO ATTRACT, MONITOR & START UP A SUCCESSFUL PURPLE MARTIN COLONY.

THIS VIDEO IS PROVIDED BY PURPLE MARTIN RESEARCHER AND EDUCATOR FRANK CATANZARO, FROM COLCHESTER, ONTARIO, CANADA.

***Originally, Native Americans discovered that, if they put up hollowed out gourds, Purple Martins would use them for nesting.
How this was discovered nobody really knows for sure, but they soon noticed that these Purple Martins would drive away some pests and predators such as Crows and Hawks.
They also discovered that the Martins consumed large quantities of pesky flying insects thus; the more gourds they put up, the more Martins came and the fewer insect were around.
Before long the Purple Martins learned to move from the trees to the gourds and around humans