“It is really cool and important that we have snag nesting species in the Pacific Northwest still because the eastern subspecies has totally lost that behavior and we would like to do our best to preserve that behavior in the Pacific Northwest.”

– Lorelle Sherman

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Resources Mentioned

• Lorelle Sherman Contact page: https://extension.oregonstate.edu/people/lorelle-sherman
• Purple Martin Conservation Association
• eBird’s explore page     I naturalist
• Sherman and Hagar 2019 (attached as pdf, too)
• Purple Martin – Nest Watch https://nestwatch.org/learn/focal-species/purple-martin/
• Download a Nest Box Plan for Purple Martin

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• Yellow Birch

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