Heritage Farms Quad Pod Purple Martin House Package, 3 Pods

These rooms are not really large enough for Purple Martins, they need the right size apartments to breed and raise a family. Adult martins are 7.5 -8” long, so rooms must be large enough to accommodate 4 - 6 nearly-grown nestlings and both parents. Rooms should be 6 x 11” or 6 X 12” at a minimum. This allows them to be safer from predators & the elements & to fledge more babies.It actually hurts the survivability of the species having them nest in smaller cavities like these - the fledge rate is completely compromised in this undersized space. Windblown rains have a greater impact upon smaller compartments. Young martins subjected to rain can develop hypothermia and die. Predators can quickly snatch a martin from these smaller compartments. Please think of the birds themselves, rather than the artistic, or inexpensive appeal.Serious Purple Martin landlords won’t consider any house with rooms this compact, since it is detrimental to the survival of Purple Martins. Their numbers are already diminishing from pesticides and mercury levels where they winter in the Amazon basin. Providing the right size housing for them is the very least we can do to keep them healthy, safer from predators, and breeding properly.Also, importantly, entrances holes should be designed to hinder starling and predator invasions.