TACOMA, Wash. — Experts are closely monitoring a new set of nest boxes recently installed along Ruston Way that they hope will attract and rebuild a local colony of Purple Martin, North America’s largest swallow.
Staff from Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium relocated 16 nest boxes to a berm south of Chinese Reconciliation Park this month after the birds’ previous homes were lost.
In fall 2024, boxes and gourds attached to deteriorating wooden pilings in front of Dickman Mill Park were removed when the state dismantled the pilings…