![]() I did save the birdhouse plans off a while back and have a screen shot at the top of this page. If you find it let me know and I’ll link to it. They use to be available on Google Books but I can’t find the Canadian Field Naturalist issue there any more, maybe they took it out of their library or I’m just missing it somewhere. The plans were in the Canadian Field Naturalist 1922 3rd edition. So I decided on building something similar to the sixteen room martin house designed by Percy Algernon Taverner in the early 1900’s. ![]() There are also a lot of gourd purple martin houses out there but that wouldn’t help me get rid of my extra plywood in the garage. You can read more about the problem at The Purple Martin Conservation Association. The baby purple martins steal food from the others causing starvation from the younger birds. Morton of the National Zoological Park, porches that allow other baby martin birds to wander are dangerous to the other baby birds health. I was a little worried about these plans because they have the rap around porches that are now cause for some concern.Īccording to Dr. The second plan was also on the USGS website here and was also the square box type martin house plan. This purple martin house plan here is the typical square box type plan and is very similar to the martin house I made when I was 11 years old. The first plan was on the USGS website, one of my 5 favorite places to get birdhouse plans. For this task I went online and searched Google to come up with a list of plans to consider. The first step was to find some purple martin plans. I had a couple extra sheets of plywood in my garage that I was looking to do something with and decided to start a Purple Martin House.
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