Date: 7/2/26 9:13 pm From: Greg Haworth via groups.io <g.haworth...> Subject: Re: [centralvalleybirds] Purple martins in the Valley again?
For what it's worth, Purple Martins have a very healthy population on
Suavie Island just outside of Portland.
They nest in the dead trees in the cotton wood gallery tracts. And the
ODFW has multiple Martin gourd arrays around the island as well.
Greg Haworth
Portland Oregon
On Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 7:20 PM Larry Montgomery via groups.io <telemark22=
<sbcglobal.net...> wrote:
> If Puget Sound is the closest healthy population, do you assume capture
> and reintroduction would be necessary? Otherwise, I would think it would
> be good to have similar safe spaces constructed continuously down through
> Oregon and Northern CA. That would be worthwhile, but a very slow way to
> bring them back, which is, indeed, a worthy goal.
> Larry Montgomery
> Sacramento (but sweltering in Maine at the moment)
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