Even the American Indians made houses for Purple Martins, who eat bothersome insects.
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Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
300 mm
ISO
320
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
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Date/Time
Wed 29 Apr 2009 07:06:42 AM EDT
English Purple Martin
Scientific (Progne subis)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Hirundinidae
Family (English) Swallows, Martins
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions NA, MA
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions e SA
Countries (BETA)map Argentina,Belize,Bermuda,Bolivia,Brazil,Canada,Cayman Islands,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba, Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,French Guiana,Guatemala,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Ireland,Mexico, Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Suriname,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
subis s Canada, e USA and e Mexico
hesperia sw USA and nw Mexico
arboricola w USA and n Mexico
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Purpurschwalbe
French Hirondelle noire
Chinese 紫崖燕
Japanese ムラサキツバメ
Russian Большая ласточка
Spanish Golondrina purpúrea
Portuguese andorinha-roxa
Bird Data App text
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)