Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a quarter of the breeding population of purple martins died in Texas and Louisiana during the winter storm of 2021.

Thousands of purple martins died across Texas and Louisiana during the February 2021 winter storm, and a newly published peer-reviewed study now quantifies the scale of that loss for the first time.

The findings come from a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Researchers say the losses could take years, and possibly decades, for the species to fully recover from. The winter storm ...

Thousands of birds, including beloved purple martins, died in "The Great Texas Freeze" of 2021. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts ...

More than 100,000 purple martins roosted at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2020 and 2021. Nashville tried everything from bird calls to falcons to convince the martins to choose another roost.

Texans haven’t forgotten about the deadly freeze of 2021 — and neither have the birds. The winter storm of 2021 led to the deaths of at least 246 Texans, as temperatures plummeted and the power grid ...