Texas Fauna Project

Eastern Purple Martin

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Andy Balinsky, a network security engineer, is a long-time volunteer purple martin steward who cares for a large Austin-area colony at Hornsby Bend. He has taught many fellow conservationists about ways to protect and promote martins. He has noticed that looking after martins allows a kind of satisfying, hands-on conservation impact that is often lost in more indirect kinds of environmental work.