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<description><![CDATA[The Scout Report On-Line]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PM Program in Segoville, TX  Feb 2]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Segoville, TX Groups Holds PM Education Event]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[1/24/2013 9:13:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video / Bob Ring Feeds His Martins]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["If they are hungry enough, they will feed." This was also proven.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[5/7/2011 7:34:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central Indiana Purple Martin Association Meets 5-15-11]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The annual kick off meeting of the Central Indiana Purple Martin Association 

 

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<pubDate><![CDATA[5/7/2011 7:13:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martin Colony Under Siege]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After the bird flew off, I scanned the area below the house to see if the bird had been successful in taking one of my martins, but I did not see any feathers below the house.  I felt relieved but only for a moment.  Would this stealth bird be back and pick off the martins, one by one?  I hope not.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[5/7/2011 7:02:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Mob at the Feeders]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It would be nice if starlings came in ones and twos and were more like the cardinal in demeanor.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2011 2:27:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ray Feld Helps Purple Martins Thrive]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In an area where Purple Martin numbers have greatly decined in the last twenty  years, clearly Ray Feld’s efforts are paying off. Fifteen pairs of Purple Martins are living at Cantigny this summer, up from 11 in 2009 and 8 in 2008. Ray Feld keeps careful records of nesting success, too. This year, 80 eggs were laid, 59 hatched and 55 of the babies fledged. This is nearly double the number of fledglings in 2009.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[9/3/2010 6:32:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Windmills Exact High Mortality on Birds and Bats]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[International group calls for three-year wind farm moratorium]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=303]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/16/2010 8:33:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM Festival Returns to Maurice River, NJ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The annual Purple Martin Festival will take place Aug. 13 and 14 at 6 p.m., at the Mauricetown Causeway Bridge on the east side of the Maurice River for interpretation and viewing of thousands of roosting martins.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/10/2010 10:54:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Allen Jackson Bands 22,000 PMs in 3 yrs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Allen and his team just recently banded their 8,000th purple martin, a migratory songbird that nests in New Jersey. During the past three years, the team has banded about 22,000 purple martins.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/10/2010 10:39:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martins Swoop into Shockoe Bottom, VA By Thousands]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Continuing their month-long stopover in Richmond, an estimated 11,000 purple martins swarmed over the 17th Street Farmer's Market this evening -- and several hundred humans showed up to celebrate their visit.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/10/2010 8:16:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martin Roost, Wichita, KS]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mass of purple martins doesn’t disappoint.  No idea how many Purple Martins but it’s well into the tens of thousands.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/10/2010 8:06:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[North American Bluebird Annual Meet 9/9-12]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[BURLINGTON, Ont.--For the first time since 1996, the annual conference of the North American Bluebird Society is being held in Ontario, at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Sept. 9-12.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/10/2010 7:57:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adopt a Purple Martin!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[British Columbia Purple Martin Recovery Program promotes "Adopt a Purple Martin" and help stave off the loss of Purple Martins in the NW Pacific Canadian province.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=297]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/3/2010 9:21:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martin Roost at Austin, TX Mall Video]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[YouTubers video Purple Martins at recent martin roost at an Austin, TX Mall.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/3/2010 8:49:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Roosts 2010:  PMs Swarm Omaha]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Approximately 12,500 purple martins are gathering nightly in one midtown Omaha block, preparing for what's typically a late-August departure for South America.  Eventually, their numbers could swell to 30,000 or more, if recent years are any indication.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[8/3/2010 8:39:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swifts Night Out  August 6,7,8]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As summer draws to a close and the swifts have finished raising their young, these fascinating aerial acrobats begin to congregate in communal roosts prior to their migration in the fall.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/22/2010 4:11:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martin Roost, Ft. Myers, FL (Video)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Once again, it is the annual Purple Martin roost in Ft. Myers, FL]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/9/2010 8:28:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Hawk!  Nobody's home!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[You can just imagine the harassment taking place every day, not to mention the martins being caught. The martins are in the air above the site 3-4 hours a day, alarm calling and squawking all the time. You can just tell when the colony is disturbed.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[4/23/2010 4:32:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stork Travels 8K Miles, Reunites w/ Injured Mate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[No distance is too far for Rodan, the lovesick stork.  Making the trip from South Africa to Croatia every spring, the male bird travels 13,000 km to see his beloved female partner, Malena, who is disabled and unable to fly, reports Britain’s Metro.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[4/22/2010 9:08:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil to North America Migrations - Early or Late?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Arrivals and sightings have prompted lots of comments about birds being later this year.......even some are reporting arrivals are much earlier than in previous years.  Ten years of tracking provides some interesting results.....]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[4/17/2010 1:15:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fishing Line Repels Sparrows at Feeders]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[So, in our initial moments of observation, we found the adult House Sparrows were leery of the feeder with the strange lines. But, after an hour, or so, we did see sparrows in the seed tray. Lots of sparrows! Tons of sparrows!  All cavorting and pigging out on our seeds!]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[4/14/2010 12:03:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martins Know Who Their Friends Are]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Landlord Helps Out Purple Martins in Cold Weather]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[4/12/2010 12:16:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feeding Purple Martins Scrambled Blue Eggs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How to Feed Purple Martins Blue Scrambled Eggs]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=286]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/12/2010 12:13:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[David Attenborough w/Martins in Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Watch a video of Sir David Attenborough in the oil refinery with martins in Manaus, Brazil and also at a rural martin colony in Edinboro, PA.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=190]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/12/2010 6:34:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Whooping Cranes Survive 2009 Migration]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After a bumpy start, the youngest Whooping Cranes, class of 2009, departed Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, near Baraboo, WI, accompanied by their two avionic wranglers in ultra light vehicles on a flying adventure of 1,285 miles that would span 90 days.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=285]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2/13/2010 10:41:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds' Eyes Sense Magnetic Fields]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A cell in the eye may be worth two in the beak, at least when it comes to a migratory bird’s magnetic compass]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=284]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2/9/2010 7:16:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds Sniff Their Migratory Way]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — Birds largely rely on their sense of smell to navigate on their long migration routes. Indeed, the “third sense” has been shown to be a more important for them than orientation based on the sun and the earth’s magnetic field. Exactly how birds navigate on their migration routes has not yet been fully clarified. How does a bird develop an “internal map”? How does it find its way back to last year’s nest?]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[2/9/2010 6:42:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Follow Henry Progne Subis TWEETING]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Henry TWEETS from Brazil!!]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[2/4/2010 3:21:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cornel Lab Offers Bird Behavior Course]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bird course takes birding to a higher level.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=281]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2/4/2010 11:30:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare Hawk Found Alive in Chicago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This bird went south the hard way!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=280]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[1/7/2010 1:40:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's El Nino Again!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[So, what does El Niño really mean to you, the savvy Purple Martin landlord in the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, New England, Mid-Atlantic or the South and Southern Gulf Coast areas?  While the NOAA models are just simply that—models—you, the savvy Purple Martin landlord must keep an eye to the weather and the general long and short range weather predictions.  It is as I always say, “Be an amateur meteorologist! “]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[1/7/2010 11:59:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Privilege]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One minute your minding your own business nibbling on some weed seeds, and then, out of nowhere, something twenty times larger than you picks you up with a pair of ice picks and the next thing you know your being carried aloft to your doom. 
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=278]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/30/2009 1:05:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Do PM Males Live Longer Than PM Females?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Prof Birdbrain answers question on "Do male PMs live longer than PM females?]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=277]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/30/2009 1:03:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Endangered Species Whooping Crane Shot in IN]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A seven year-old Whooping Crane, the female parent of the only successfully fledged wild Whooper chick, was shot in Indiana in late November.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=275]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/15/2009 12:32:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Should I or Shouldn't I?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Read along as the eminent Professor Birdbrain advises a inquiring Purple Martin landlord not to lower his martin house at nighttime and about WDCs.  Now, what are WDCs, anyway?  To find out, read on.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=180]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/14/2009 6:16:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hummingbird in My House     Really!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How could this be? It’s a wildbird! And, it’s in our house! And, on our bed!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=192]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/14/2009 4:05:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eggcellent!!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As usual, in his cheeky way, Professor Birdbrain tells it like it is.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=175]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/14/2009 2:59:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Something Funny in This Eagle's Nest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Delta, BC, Canada There are some things you never expect in an eagle's nest.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=178]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/14/2009 10:49:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tracking the Flight of Birds, With Tiny Backpacks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Now researchers think they have cracked it with a novel device — a tiny bird backpack that contains sophisticated sensors and weighs less than a dime.  And, who gets to wear one of these little backpacks?  Why, Purple Martins, of course!  That's who!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=182]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[12/14/2009 10:00:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Akron PM Society Caters to Purple Martins]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Several thousand purple martins flock to the bird condos Portage Lakes Purple Martin Society.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=274]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/25/2009 11:55:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MN Continues to Lose PM Young in 2009]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cold Weather Still Wreaking PM Havoc]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=273]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/25/2009 8:49:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Martin Purple Martin]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One of our walks this wet summer evening led us to a fellow I had never met before. He is an avid caretaker for his own summer company, birds named Purple Martins. 
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=272]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/25/2009 8:07:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martin Roost Returns to Omaha]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[During the summer, Omaha becomes an unlikely home for tens of thousands of purple martins who roost in the city.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=271]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/25/2009 7:09:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swifts Night Out / September 11-13]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Swifts Night Out / Part Two / September 11-13]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=270]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/25/2009 6:50:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Neo-Tropical, A Misnomer?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We all know that martins migrate to and from the tropics, and so, we are guilty for eons for having referred to them over the years as Neo-Tropical migrants.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=269]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/24/2009 9:25:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Couple makes friends with backyard birds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Almost immediately, a wild robin, hopping from the distant yard at a good clip, suddenly halts about a foot away from Walton’s feet. There, it cocks its head sideways. Calls out. Looks at Walton with its left eye; its right eye.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/17/2009 1:02:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feeding PMs on Portage Lakes, OH]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Feeding the purple martins on Long Lake in Portage Lakes Ohio is a curious event! 

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=267]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/17/2009 12:52:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chuck Bates / Awendaw, SC]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The news is not so bad!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=266]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/17/2009 12:48:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Round Table Welcomes Hummingbird Forum]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The PMSNA is pleased to welcome Susan Campbell to the Round Table Conferences as moderator of The Hummingbird Conference.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=265]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/9/2009 11:18:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martins Are Predators, Too]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How many landlords actually notice the variety of insects that martins actually eat?]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=264]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/8/2009 2:47:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Major Purple Martin Kill This Summer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Major Purple Martin kill due to weather this summer in many states]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=263]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/6/2009 10:16:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sweltering Weather Kills PM Nestlings]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Give them some relief and sprinkle the martin equipment so that it is like rain. It will help some to reduce the interior of your compartments.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=262]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/28/2009 10:07:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Certify Your Yard w/ the National Wildlife Federation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you can turn your yard into a wildlife refuge that is recognized with the National Wildlife Federation?]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=261]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/26/2009 6:03:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CT Conservationist Wants Info On PMs in State]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Milan Bull inquires in his Connecticut conservation blog about any and all PM colonies in his state.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=260]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/26/2009 5:45:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Martin Maven Faces Colony Establishment Failure]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Follow along with the trials and tribulations of our very own Martin Maven as the Maven attempts to establish a new PM colony and finds failure in '09.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=259]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/26/2009 5:36:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Incorrigible Three / The Starling Wars Continue]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It is Sturnus vulgaris. Yes, the dreaded European Starling!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=258]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/14/2009 8:40:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I Am Henry!  A Biography]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I Am Henry!  I am!  I Am!  Read about Henry on Face Book and Tweet Henry, Too!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=257]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/12/2009 1:16:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Henry, the PM, Tweets]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[See Henry Progne Subis Tweet on Twitter.com]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=256]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/12/2009 6:17:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Professor Birdbrain on Murderous Starlings]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We completely understand your frustration with starlings. We, too, wage a bitter battle with these birds and it is an every day struggle with them.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=255]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/3/2009 7:48:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A New PM Beginning in Milwaukee]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Milwaukee, WI group, bands together to bring Purple Martins back to the area.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=253]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/2/2009 4:14:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Faster Than A Speeding Songbird]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New research shows migrating songbirds completing transcontinental journey much faster than previously thought]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=252]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/2/2009 4:00:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BC Martin Stewardship / Recovery Program]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The western subspecies (Progne subis arboricola) is threatened in British Columbia.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=251]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/2/2009 3:26:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To Porch or Not to Porch]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Porches are very dangerous places for nestlings.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=250]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/29/2009 10:11:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Article Features PMs and Ray Feld]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Why try to attract purple martins? Why do people work so closely with these birds, and not others?]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=249]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/29/2009 8:22:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spring--That Time of The Year Again]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[My connection in the natural world runs deep within my soul. I have a built in calendar that knows what is going on in the private lives of the lesser creatures that surround us.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=248]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/19/2009 3:54:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martins Find S FL Friend]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This article details how Purple Martin blogger, Susan Halpin, developed her interest in Purple Martins in SE Florida.  Susan is a blogger on the PMSNA Round Table site.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=246]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/7/2009 8:36:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abandon Female Swallow w/Eggs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I am sure that something has happened to the male.  What can I do to help her?  Read further to see how Professor Birdbrain advises.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=245]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/6/2009 8:59:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Often to Do Nestchecks?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Student, Linda, asks:  "Is it alright to do nest checks more often than 5-7 days if you want to? "

Come, join in on this Purple Martin webinar with his academianess, Profess Birdbrain, the great Purple Martin know-it-all.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=244]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/5/2009 11:19:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gary Rooney Colony Fotos / Bellport, NY]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[View Gary Rooney's colony of Purple Martins in Bellport, NY.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=243]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/3/2009 3:31:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How the Swine Flu Gets Started]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How the Swine Flu Gets Started

Well, you will just have to click to find out!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=242]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/1/2009 11:36:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tune in to BirdNote]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The mission of Tune In to Nature.org is to produce and distribute outstanding audio programming – radio stories rich in sound, imagery and information – connecting the ways and needs of birds to the lives of listeners.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=241]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/1/2009 11:20:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Osprey Cooks Meal On Power Line]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The workers speculated it was a carp.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=240]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/1/2009 11:11:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds Got Rythm Too]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Birds can dance, proving humans aren't the only ones with rhythm]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=239]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/1/2009 11:05:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We Are LQQKING for...]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We Are LQQKING for...]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=238]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/1/2009 6:42:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dumber Than Dirt]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Martin Maven, a seasoned Purple Martin author of many Purple Martin articles for over 15 years, returns again for the 2009 Purple Martin season in No-Martinville, USA.  Read along with our featured columnist as the Maven as the Maven encouters the mother of all travails in cultivating a new colony of Purple Martins.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=237]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[5/1/2009 6:14:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Migratory Birds Defy the Odds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Biologists, like scientists and statisticians of any stripe, spend much of their time looking for averages to provide compelling information and irrefutable proof about what's going on in the environment around us. We gather piles of data and base our conclusions on what we've interpreted from it. But the early return of long-distance migrant purple martins, members of the swallow family, this spring provided a good reminder that it's important not to lose sight of the stories individual birds (or other wildlife) can tell as well.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=236]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/30/2009 6:00:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Official:  Bird Could Have Started Fire]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[NORTHUMBERLAND -- The idea that a bird might have started Monday afternoon's fire at Strong Industries by picking up a smoldering cigarette butt and dropping it inside an abandoned area of the plant isn't as far fetched as people might think, a high-ranking state official said.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=235]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/30/2009 5:53:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Life Changing Bird]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Purple Martins are not just a hobby. They generate a way of life.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=234]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/29/2009 11:57:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[James / Danica Baker's PMs in Millington, TN]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Just married in September, James and Danica Baker share a love with each other and their Purple Martins in Milliington, TN.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=233]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/29/2009 11:48:00 AM]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[24]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Empire State PM House complete w/ King Kong]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Take a look and see what Pete Fusco designed for his Purple Martins.  Hint!  HInt! King Kong is involved.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=232]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/27/2009 1:50:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birdbrain Speaks / Beamer Advisory]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Join in on Professor Birdbrain as he or she responds to a former student's story involving a Beamer and a House Sparrow. You will get a kick out of this story.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=231]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/27/2009 10:15:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Help Make Wind Energy Friendly to Birds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dear Supporter:


 
Bald Eagle. Photo: USFWS 
Wind power is widely touted as the green energy of the future, but did you know that wind turbines kill thousands of birds each year, including eagles, waterfowl, and migratory songbirds? The more wind farms that are built, the greater the problem becomes.


American Bird Conservancy is working with regulators, lawmakers, and the wind industry to limit the damage done by turbines, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=230]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/25/2009 7:15:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mountain Bluebird Seen In Ohio]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A mountain bluebird was spotted in Ohio in early April, the first reported sighting in the state in more than 100 years. The birds' regular range is in the West, but they have been known to show up in the Midwest and East during the winter. Here, a mountain bluebird perches on a feeder in Colorado.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=229]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/22/2009 8:38:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wants PMs Bad / Birdbrain Speaks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Join Professor Birdbrain today in class as he or she instructs an inquisitive Purple Martin steward not only on using proper English but on the bane of Purple Martin landlords' existence, European Starlings.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=227]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/9/2009 8:24:00 AM]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[22]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martins Arrive in Shoals]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Like reporting UFO sightings, other NAPMC club members proudly phone one another as the first martin “scouts” begin to arrive in the Shoals, usually in late February. The first arrivals are mature birds which navigate miraculously all the way from Brazil to find the same nesting site used the previous year. 
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=226]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/8/2009 9:40:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Theft of Birds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, when I went to take the trapbox down, I noticed that something had been digging around the base of the pole, and that suggested another panic situation. There was what looked like blood around one of the holes the martins were using and there were no martins in sight.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=225]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[4/8/2009 6:56:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Starling Traps / Birdbrain Speaks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Again, the incorrigible but fully informed Professor Birdbrain takes the podium to set a student correctly on how to trap starlings]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[4/7/2009 6:53:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swallows No Show at Capistrano]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[But the mission bells rang again and again during this year's Festival of the Swallows, which ended Sunday, and the tiny birds just didn't make an appearance.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/31/2009 8:24:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Birdville's birds switch roosts?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["I feel, for the community, we need to try to save that chimney," said Sandy Dunn, who lives near Richland High. "They are called Birdville — are they going to let the bird habitat that’s been sitting there all these years go away?]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/30/2009 8:28:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 backyard Bird Conservation Ideas]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are countless ways to create habitat in your backyard. Perhaps the easiest is to let things "go wild" in one part of your property. Chances are the plants that grown in your "wild" area will be natural sources of food for the birds.

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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/30/2009 8:00:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Toads Gone Wild!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When love is in the air, the last thing one might be thinking about is the Philadelphia Streets Department.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/29/2009 4:09:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Purple Martins make annual return to Dallas-Fort Worth]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Watch Purple Martin steward, Kenny Crawford of Grand Prairie welcome Purple Martins.  "I love the purple martins," he said. "I love their song. And they're so purple...." 

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=213]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/29/2009 9:04:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Frogs Go A-Courtin']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists say amphibians are primitive compared to mammals or even reptiles. I disagree.  Who are we to judge such a thing?  

 

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=218]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/28/2009 8:21:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Once in lifetime Eagle Event on Film]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Here's a once-in-a-lifetime, Bald Eagle event captured on film...In an amazing slideshow of photos, a photographer in North Vancouver, BC was in the right place at the right time and with a great camera and camera lens.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/28/2009 2:37:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The 7th Annual Minnesota Martin Fest  June 27]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Unique describes the colony of Don Wilkins in Park Rapids, MN.  All Purple Martin tradition dashed aside, Don's colony of martins is mounted on poles alright-- but the poles are not installed on land but strongly planted in the waters of Long Lake, a sandbed lake with low waking along the shoreline of his property.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/28/2009 12:00:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sparrow Spookers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The recent invention of the Sparrow Spooker is the neatest thing since sliced bread.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=210]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/28/2009 8:00:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Antique Giant Bird's Egg on Sale]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A giant egg laid in the 17th century and thought to be one of the biggest in the world has gone on sale for £5,000  ($7,303.02 USD).]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=219]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/28/2009 7:33:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop the Killing of Canadian Seals / Online Petition]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ask your friends to sign the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood.  Iron Chef Cat Cora has joined with The Humane Society of the United States to work to stop Canada's cruel commercial seal hunt.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=220]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/28/2009 7:11:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Returning Scouts All Over the Place]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Returning scouts are showing up just about everywhere and are already as far north as Northern Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.  Use our graphical tracking maps to pinpoint the latest sightings.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=209]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/23/2009 5:39:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Albino Martins]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Interest in albinism in Purple Martins was recently sparked when we featured photos of a special, partial abino Purple Martin ASY from the colony of Diane Oberlander in NW Pennsylvania. Rick Cruz writes about albino martins]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=189]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/20/2009 3:55:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In Study of Human Patterns, Scientists Look to Bird Brains]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[“If they spend so many hours flying,” said Ruth M. Benca of the University of Wisconsin, “where do they find the time to sleep?”]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/20/2009 3:50:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flight Plan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has been lucky to observe a migrating roost of Purple Martins can attest to the overwhelming ability of a huge cloud of martins to build, swarm, then fly like bullets into the roost at dusk.  It is an unbelievable sight.  Even a wonder of the natural world.  This Audubon Magazine article begins to dissect the agility of immense swarming numbers of birds as they adroitly and swiftly move about in concert in the air.




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<pubDate><![CDATA[3/20/2009 3:30:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1M Migratory Birds Slaughtered in Cyprus]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than 1.1 million songbirds prized as culinary delicacies were illegally slaughtered by trappers in Cyprus in the past year, a conservation group said Tuesday.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=205]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/20/2009 3:00:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One Stop, Bird Stop on the RTCs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In our effort to round out the Round Table Conferences in providing a one-stop bird stop encompassing Purple Martins, bluebirds, birding, nature, Purple Martin and bluebird organization forums, we are striving to bring to our readers the most potential for information and enjoyment when they log on.  With this goal safely established in our minds, we have recently introduced several new players to the Round Table Conferences.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=208]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 2:51:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Baby Bluebirds and Worms]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If you see baby Bluebirds being fed earthworms, it is a sign of desperation. Many times in the early spring when we have so many days of rainy, cold weather, food is very hard to come by for all the birds.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=207]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 2:39:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bird Tracks.....Bird Facts]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of the key sections and pages of The Purple Martin Society, NA that are always Must Read...!!!]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=206]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 1:16:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Peace, Love, and Purple Martins]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While describing the nesting habits of purple martins, I inexplicably switched the word “colonial” with “communal”. I suppose it was a forgivable slip, as the words are similar, but I chuckled at the images of a hippie commune from the ’60’s and ’70’s that popped into my head.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=203]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 12:01:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lead-poisoned CA Condor  Also Shot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A California condor suffering from lead poisoning was captured last Wednesday in the California central coast and brought to the Los Angeles Zoo for treatment the next day.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=202]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 11:49:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Startling Starling Video]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This is a startling starling video.  Advisory:  This is violent and involves the death of Purple Martin young in the nest.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=201]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 10:48:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Looking for a Hummingbird Meister!]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=200]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 10:43:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM Landlords and Bluebird Managers Team Up]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Purple Martin landlords and Bluebird Managers like sheep herders and cattle ranchers?  No, way!  Both have the same birding, managing and conservation philosophies.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=199]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 10:19:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds Return to Roost]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each year, Bill and Paula Scott of Lewisville are visited by special guests. The Scotts provide them lodging, watch over them and even help them raise their babies. Often, these children come back the next year to start their own  amilies. 

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=197]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 7:53:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[North TX Landlords Celebrate 10th]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[North Texas Landlords Celebrate 10th Anniversary.  Purple Martin maven, Gisela Fregoe remarks, "I just cannot believe that I am doing this already for 10 years."
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=196]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/17/2009 6:03:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bird Seed Prices Soar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gardeners who feed the birds have probably been wondering what’s up with the price of bird seed this year? Prices soar, then retreat a bit, then climb higher. There are a couple of reasons.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=194]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/13/2009 4:24:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Salamonella Kills Tennessee Songbirds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[“We’ve picked them (dead birds) up in about seven (East Tennessee) counties now, and we’ve had birds dying in as many as up to 30 birds in one group, so it’s pretty significant numbers,” said Scott Dykes, a wildlife biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=191]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/13/2009 3:49:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Walking in the Dark]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Our favorite Ranger Rick write about how his innocence and wonder in the woods has changed.  

"I can no longer walk that gravel road come sun down.  The smallest twig break makes me stop dead in my tracks.  I listen so intently, all the while gauging the size and sound of the twig broken and what is heavy enough to make such a sound."]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=188]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/11/2009 6:00:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Calhoun, SC is a Purple Martin Town]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Every year around the first of March, Calhoun, SC can be seen on a ladder, meticulously separating the levels and boxes of each of the houses and cleaning out the debris left behind by “free-loading” sparrows or other winter-nesting birds, in preparation for the return of the first Martin or “scout.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=187]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/11/2009 5:37:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kiyoshi Takahashi Re-established BC Population]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Port Moody, BC...Kiyoshi and his team of volunteers have enabled the endangered purple martins to reestablish a breeding population in Port Moody after an absence of a quarter of a century.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=186]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/11/2009 4:04:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rescue Flight]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At 200 feet, the first pilot, Chris Gullikson, was perfectly visible in his trike’s open cockpit. He was wearing his whooping-crane costume, a white hooded helmet and white gown that looked like a cross between a beekeeping suit and a Ku Klux Klan get-up. Gullikson and the other trike pilots were going to pick up the 14 juvenile whooping cranes that they were, little by little, leading south for the winter.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=185]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/11/2009 11:32:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bird Hazard Is Persistent for Planes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The earliest known fatal airplane crash involving a bird took place in 1912, nine years after the first flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C. That plane crashed into the surf off Long Beach, Calif., pinning its pilot under the wreckage.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=183]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/11/2009 10:25:00 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One Lucky Red Tail Hawk]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Red Tail struck by car on I-5 in Oregon lives to tell about it.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=181]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/5/2009 3:00:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central Indiana Purple Martin Association  (CIMPA) Meets May 3]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Central Indiana Purple Martin Association (CIMPA) meets May 3
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=179]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[3/3/2009 6:06:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Martin Cam]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Pearson, a member of The North Texas Purple Martin Landlords Association tells landlords how he uses a cam to watch his martins while he travels.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=177]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/3/2008 12:03:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Peru Guards Its Guano as Demand Soars Again]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.purplemartins.com/ScoutReport/view_article.asp?id=176]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/2/2008 3:03:00 PM]]></pubDate>
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