The Association has four current projects that should be of interest to anyone who erects martin housing or is considering doing so.
The first project is called the Colony Registration Program. Through the program, the Association is attempting to locate the addresses of every active and inactive martin colony site in North America. Free Colony Registration forms are available to anyone with a site. If you have a colony site, or know someone who does, please register your site. So far, the organization has registered over 50,000 colony sites.

The second project is called Project Martinwatch. This is a continent-wide cooperative venture where the Association supplies nest record forms to active Purple Martin "landlords" to fill out as they conduct weekly nest checks on the Purple Martins breeding in their boxes or gourds. At season's end, the forms are totaled up and returned to the organization for analysis.

The third project is the Scout-arrival Survey. Each martin season we track the northward migration of Purple Martins, continent-wide. If you would like to participate in this survey by sending us the date that martins were first seen in your community this year, click here.

The fourth project currently under way is the Purple Martin Nest Cavity Research Project in which a miniature camera has been placed within a gourd containing a nesting pair of martins. We are continually learning so much about the nesting cycle of martins. This is not a live webcam, but we continually update images to share our knowledge with you.

The Purple Martin Conservation Association does support others working with Purple Martins and other swallow species. PMCA Grant Application.
These projects will allow the Purple Martin Conservation Association to obtain better continent-wide estimates of breeding success and population trends across North America. People with active colonies are urged to contact us. E-Mail us for more information on our Research and Conservation Projects.