The Purple Martin Family Tree from the Fall 2020 Issue of The Purple Martin Update
Taxonomy is the method of naming and classifying the natural world into groups based on shared characteristics. While you may be familiar with Purple Martins—and other members of the swallow family that nest in North America—there are many branches of the Purple Martin family tree. To organize and understand the relationships of all of living organisms to each other, biologists developed a hierarchy of classification with birds grouped in […]