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BIRDWISE: Battle of the boxes – a matter of timing
The unlikely circumstance of nestings by multiple tree swallows and purple martins in a four-unit apartment complex have only been possible because of the timing of arrival of both conspecifics and potential competitors.  
Written By:
Marshall Howe, For the Enterprise |
3:05 pm, Jul. 18, 2021
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Two first-year male purple martins and one tree swallow, at right, using my apartment complex. (Marshall Howe/For the Enterprise)
Purple martins are large, dark-colored swallows that are most familiar to us as garrulous occupants of multiple-compartment nest boxes.
Although they are natural hole-nesters, nearly all martins in the eastern U.S. now nest in artificial boxes. Articles about local martin aficionados who have had success establishing substantial “colonies” of these birds on Long and Fish Hook Lakes have appeared in the Park Rapids Enterprise now and then. ....

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