Porch Dividers

Product Description

Porch dividers provide create boundaries for your Purple Martin house. The front porch - a place to socialize, rest in an evening, enjoy a breeze on a hot day - while all these are wonderful for people houses and bird houses--a porch in a Purple Martin house can be fraught with danger if a male Purple Martin feels like ruling the roost. No matter how close family can be, sometimes you just need healthy boundaries. Porch Dividers can do just that for your comfy Purple Martin houses.

Sometimes one male will dominate a porch with multiple compartments. He will aggressively keep other birds off his territory, his "porch." This behavior can reduce nesting success and cause Purple Martins to abandon not only their nests, but their summer homes.

Purple Martins return year after year to the same summer houses, so it's safe to assume the family they raised last year will return to raise a new family. Make their summer migrating experience even more comfortable by ensuring additional privacy with Porch Dividers

Technical Specifications

• Houses sold separately
• Dividers snap into place easily, making a thin wall between Purple Martin families
• They fit all styles of the S&K Manufacturing Purple Martin Houses

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