How to Build a Purple Martin Birdhouse

Purple martins are a beneficial bird that not only eat copious amounts of insects, but also scare away hawks and crows.

By Will Shelton
Updated on April 24, 2023
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Learn how to build a purple martin birdhouse. These purple martin house plans create stackable floors to accommodate a growing colony, year after year.

Some things are just intrinsically appealing to me, such as beanie caps with propellers, old pickup trucks and birdhouses. For reasons that I can’t quite put my finger on, they are just … neat. And a two or three-story martin birdhouse, well …

I became interested in martin birdhouses after seeing the movie Witness with Harrison Ford. If you remember, he smashed into one and then spent some time repairing both the house and his troubled spirit. I never actually saw martins in that particular house. It’s possible that Harrison botched the job. To entice a colony to your birdhouse, you must make it attractive to them as well as you.

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