Date: 8/10/25 9:06 pm From: Glenn Kincaid via groups.io <glenn...> Subject: [sbcobirding] Purple Martin Breeding Nojoqui Falls Park 2025
With support of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society, we (Primarily Adrian O’Loghlen and I) have been monitoring the breeding Purple Martins in and near Nojoqui Falls County Park since 2016. Typically we visit the park weekly during breeding season to check on breeding progress. This year we had 5 successful nests (defined as: minimum of food delivery or fecal sac removal), and 1 additional nest that we could not confirm. The breeding season was late this year, two seeks or more later than last year. Five successful nests have been the number for 3 years now. These low numbers are of great concern because there are data that indicate Purple Martin colonies of this size have only a 50:50 chance of surviving from year to year.
