The Purple Martan bird is one that many of us await to see each spring. My mother has always loved the bird and she is not alone. There are many like her who wait to see the Purple Martan arive and welcomes them with open arms. They are perhaps the only bird that has been awarded the credit of ridding the area of some other pesky pest the mosquito. 
One special town here in Illinois that welcomes the purple martan each year is the little town of Griggsville Illinois.
“Griggsville is located between the Mississippi River and the Illinois River and the hot muggy summers are the perfect habitat for mosquitoes. Amid growing concern over the use of pesticides to control mosquitoes, the town came up with an alternate abatement method. J.L. Wade, a Griggsville resident and owner of a local antenna manufacturing factory realized that Griggsville was right in the migration path of the Purple Martin, the largest bird in the swallow family, supposedly able to eat 2,000 mosquitoes in a single day.[3] J.L. Wade quickly realized that to get the purple martins to stay, he simply needed to give them a reason to stay, so he converted his antenna factory into a bird house building factory. The mosquito population dwindled, which lead the town to adopt the nickname “The Purple Martin Capital of the Nation”, as well as labeling the Purple Martin “America’s Most Wanted Bird.” Additionally, Wade’s Purple Martin business, formerly Trio Manufacturing, published a newsletter called The Nature Society News. The purple martin factory has been recently been sold to a Chicago businessman. Griggsville has installed over 5,000 birdhouses along the city streets, including a 562-apartment high rise, reaching a height of 70 ft.” – Wikipedia
So while we enjoy the work of this bird I must say that he gives us as much as we get.
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