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Purple Martin

Progne subis

A summer resident that nests in North Carolina. Found in all 100 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 100 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in North Carolina 5

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 5

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
SummerOpen Water (Fresh); Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural LakeshoreRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"
SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain", Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland; Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh
Other habitats in its models (24)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in North Carolina. Those recorded in North Carolina first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (5)
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Summer.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Northeast (1)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Summer.
Midwest (1)
  • Western Great Plains Wooded Draw and Ravine Summer.
Land cover and other classes (17)
  • Barren Land Summer.
  • Developed, High Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • Developed, Medium Intensity Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Summer.
  • Eastern Highland Rim Prairie and Barrens - Dry Modifier Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Summer.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

  • Summer: nests here, in all 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 89

Plants 1314

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in North Carolina

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

Freshwater tidal marshes

Birds 81

Plants 30

All of freshwater tidal marshes in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources