Do Purple Martins Inhabit Bird Boxes in the West?

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Aldo Leopold

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This year the writer erected a martin box at Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have since kept my eyes open for instances of successful martin boxes in the southwest, but have found none. Last summer I found Purple Martins (Progne subis) nesting abundantly in pine snags killed by impounded waters at Lake Mary and Coleman Lake, in Coconiso County, Arizona. It occurs to me that this bird may not yet have become domesticated in the west. Can any reader of THE CONDOR enlighten me on this question?

Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 21, 1918

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Leopold, Aldo (1918) "Do Purple Martins Inhabit Bird Boxes in the West?," Condor: Vol. 20 : Iss. 2 , Article 19.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol20/iss2/19