MSS12 Purple Martin Safety System

Product Description

Purple Martins enjoy apartment-style living, and the MSS12 Purple Martin Safety System sets you up as Landlord Supreme - one who provides cozy living conditions, protection, and maintenance-made-easy. Your 12-room Summer boarding house will fill quickly, as nesters settle to raise their brood, worry-free.

Security is assured with such equipment as guard rails, swing-out doors, roof perches, and dri-nest subfloors. Your job is made easier with lanyard lock and rope lanyard, ground socket, and pole. When winter comes around, and your boarders return south, just pop in the winter door stops until Spring Time.

Technical Specifications

• Ships in 2 cartons

Additional Information

Purple Martin Facts:

• Purple Martins are one of North America’s best known and most desired birds.
• Purple Martins are the largest North American swallow and the only species of martins on this continent.
• People treasure Purple Martins for their graceful flight, social antics, gurgling song, and insect-eating habits.
• Purple Martins are a unique part of North America’s natural history, managed by humans longer than any other species of songbird.
• In most of North America, Purple Martins depend on human-supplied housing for nesting.
• Purple Martins faithfully return to the backyards of their landlords (the people who put up martin housing) in North America traditionally as warm spring weather returns for their breeding season.
• Purple Martin breeding season is approximately a 70-day cycle while the birds are with us in our backyards. During this time, Purple Martins are busy building their nests, laying their eggs, raising their young and bringing happiness to their devoted landlords.

Housing Standards for Purple Martins

MSS12 Purple Martin Directions