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Author reflects on purple martins' migration and uses their example to advocate for bird conservation. She suggests actions individuals can take to protect migrating birds.

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Parsed Content: Opinion|One Way the Earthbound Can Take Flight Sept. 1, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET By Margaret Renkl Sept. 1 is the beginning of meteorological fall, but in Nashville you would not know it from the temperature. There are other signals that autumn is on the way, though. Asters and goldenrods are beginning to bloom, and acorns have begun to fall. The light is changing now, too — a certain slant at the end of the day that signals the approach of the autumnal equinox. But the sign of fall I wait for most eagerly, the one that fills my heart with outrageous hope, is the great gathering of purple martins in downtown Nashville. These birds, North America’s largest swallow, have been coming here for years. Sometimes they use an old roost site; sometimes they choose a new spot. In the United States, purple martins nest mainly east of the Rockies and spend winters in South America. They are avian acrobats, feasting on flying insects while in flight themselves. When it’s time to prepare for the fall...

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Sept. 1 is the beginning of meteorological fall, but in Nashville you would not know it from the temperature.
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Simplified: September 1 is beginning of meteorological fall Nashville temperature does not reflect it
Asters and goldenrods are beginning to bloom, and acorns have begun to fall.
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Simplified: Asters goldenrods are blooming acorns are falling
The light is changing now, too — a certain slant at the end of the day that signals the approach of the autumnal equinox.
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Simplified: Light is changing signaling approach of autumnal equinox
These birds, North America’s largest swallow, have been coming here for years.
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Simplified: Purple martins North America's largest swallow have been coming to Nashville for years
In the United States, purple martins nest mainly east of the Rockies and spend winters in South America.
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Simplified: Purple martins nest mainly east of Rockies spend winters in South America
They are avian acrobats, feasting on flying insects while in flight themselves.
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Simplified: Purple martins are avian acrobats feasting on flying insects in flight
Nashville’s roost is one of the largest, hosting 100,000 birds or more each year.
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Simplified: Nashville's roost hosts 100000 purple martins or more each year
Last year it was the trees in a parking lot at the Tennessee Titans’ stadium.
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Simplified: Last year purple martins roosted in trees at Tennessee Titans' stadium parking lot
This year they’re roosting near the convention center.
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Simplified: This year purple martins are roosting near Nashville convention center
Purple martins are cavity nesters by nature, setting up their nurseries in woodpecker holes in dead trees.
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Simplified: Purple martins are cavity nesters nesting in woodpecker holes in dead trees
But in the eastern United States, purple martins have lost most of their natural nesting sites because of habitat destruction.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d0e-11e3-41bb-a1d4-a5ff70ee3947

Simplified: Eastern US purple martins have lost most natural nesting sites due to habitat destruction
They survive because people put up martin houses, multiunit nest boxes built to serve as avian apartment buildings.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Conservation 🆔 9fc88d0f-0e2c-4563-8e16-29dc6f926890

Simplified: Purple martins survive because people put up martin houses
More than half the bird species in North America are migratory, and most migratory birds undertake their journeys at night.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Statistical 🆔 9fc88d10-08d9-45b4-97cc-2a8489ae5e09

Simplified: More than half bird species in North America are migratory most migrate at night
Artificial nighttime lights confuse birds, drawing them in and then making it nearly impossible for them to escape.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d10-fd78-4148-bc0f-62ce92089920

Simplified: Artificial nighttime lights confuse birds making escape nearly impossible
That’s why the Sept. 11 memorial lights are temporarily turned off when volunteers spot a large number of birds trapped in the beams.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Location 🆔 9fc88d11-f77a-45c6-866b-ae7433efbcd3

Simplified: September 11 memorial lights are temporarily turned off when birds are trapped
It’s why the lights illuminating the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are turned off altogether during the peak migration months of September and May.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Location 🆔 9fc88d12-fa76-47bb-829d-fbf550b00ee9

Simplified: Gateway Arch lights in St Louis are turned off during peak migration months
To a bird, glass doesn’t register as a solid object.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian 🆔 9fc88d13-f599-4a49-a9c7-eb4d38bc9864

Simplified: To a bird glass doesn't register as solid object
Both illusions lead to dead birds by the hundreds of millions.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Statistical 🆔 9fc88d14-f1cf-4fa2-9984-ef57620fbc39

Simplified: Glass illusions lead to dead birds by hundreds of millions
This simple measure has reduced bird fatalities by 95 percent.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Statistical 🆔 9fc88d15-e250-4260-8086-799c99785ddf

Simplified: Treating glass reduced bird fatalities by 95 percent
Domestic cats are an introduced species, not a form of wildlife.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Environmental , Behavior 🆔 9fc88d16-f1ca-49a3-a1b3-30085384637e

Simplified: Domestic cats are introduced species not wildlife
Birds are responsible for the deaths of some 2.4 billion birds each year.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Statistical 🆔 9fc88d17-e53d-4bdc-a398-4a0a7e02cb98

Simplified: Domestic cats cause deaths of 2.4 billion birds each year
Turn off outdoor lights.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d18-e014-41b7-a09c-026767f647b0

Simplified: Turn off outdoor lights
With lights that can’t be safely turned off, you can at least dim them, put them on timers or install hoods or shields that direct their light downward instead of into the sky.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d19-da62-4bbe-83af-17c5a0c435cf

Simplified: Dim lights put lights on timers install hoods or shields
Make windows visible to birds.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d1a-d1ee-449a-9ef8-6a1d919f16de

Simplified: Make windows visible to birds
The next best thing is to coat the glass with a substance that birds can see.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d1b-bfe7-4595-a50b-0c81492635b6

Simplified: Coat glass with substance birds can see
You could mark the outside of a window with a grid painted in tempera or drawn with soap, or install screens, or hang ribbons from the tops of windows, or invest in one of the many affordable products...
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d1c-7069-4f42-b129-c67068714dd3

Simplified: Mark window with grid install screens hang ribbons invest in window strike products
Keep cats leashed or indoors.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental , Behavior 🆔 9fc88d1d-6598-4488-825c-d7155490b846

Simplified: Keep cats leashed or indoors
Make your yard safe for birds.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d1e-50fe-4b73-9fed-0f20c35ee302

Simplified: Make your yard safe for birds
Bird feeders can help, but they need to be kept scrupulously clean to prevent transmission of illness.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d1f-5a37-454e-bc1d-5c92d7836e6a

Simplified: Bird feeders can help keep them clean to prevent illness
Plant native flowers and let them go to seed.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d20-4747-4c47-a7d5-ba0955db3828

Simplified: Plant native flowers let them go to seed
Plant native trees and shrubs that produce nuts, berries and drupes.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d21-3e84-455e-9afd-65a83c102200

Simplified: Plant native trees shrubs that produce nuts berries drupes
Swear off pesticides that kill insects and herbicides that poison food sources.
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👤 Margaret Renkl 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Avian , Environmental 🆔 9fc88d22-331d-4a4b-b2a6-17cbb0e9df04

Simplified: Swear off pesticides herbicides