Purple Martin
Introduction
An extremely rare visitor from North America, where many people provide nest boxes for this large martin.
Added to the British List following the presence of a juvenile at Butt of Lewis, Outer Hebrides in September 2004. Purple Martin is a long-distance migrant, breeding across most of the United States and southern Canada, and wintering in South America, as far south as Argentina.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Size
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution.
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
This species has been too rarely reported to BirdTrack during 2011–22 to properly assess seasonality.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Hirundinidae
- Scientific name: Progne subis
- Authority: Linnaeus, 1758
- Euring code number: 9890
Alternate species names
- Catalan: oreneta porpra
- Czech: jiricka modrolesklá
- Danish: Purpursvale
- Dutch: Purperzwaluw
- Estonian: türkiispääsuke (põhja-türkiispääsuke)
- Finnish: sinipääsky
- French: Hirondelle noire
- German: Purpurschwalbe
- Hungarian: bíborfecske
- Irish: Gabhlán corcra
- Italian: Rondine purpurea
- Latvian: purpura curkste
- Lithuanian: purpurine miškine kregžde
- Norwegian: Purpursvale
- Polish: jaskólczak modry
- Portuguese: andorinha-azul / andorinha-roxa
- Slovak: lastovicka purpurová
- Spanish: Golondrina purpúrea
- Swedish: blå storsvala
