Date: 1/5/26 9:38 pm From: Richard James via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Purple Martins
On 2026-01-05 12:00 p.m., via Tweeters wrote:
> Message: 8 > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0800 > From: Kathleen Snyder via Tweeters <tweeters...> > Subject: [Tweeters] To California, Brazil, and Back ? GPS tracking of > Vesper Sparrow and Purple Martin. Thursday Jan 8, 7 pm via Zoom > Oregon Vesper Sparrow and Western Purple Martin, two imperiled subspecies > unique to the western U.S.
Kathleen,
For the record, there are well-documented colonies of Western Purple Martin in BC, so not unique to western USA.
"In 2014, a total of 1,060 pairs nested at 74 marine and 6 freshwater sites, an increase of 110 pairs and 12 sites from 2013; the breeding range now extends to Barkley Sound and the Broughton Archipelago in the Coast and Mountains Ecoprovince (Western Purple Martin Foundation 2014)."
