NEWBURYPORT — Upon arriving at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (PRNWR), one of the first things visitors see adjacent to parking Lot 1 are two racks of 18 gourds.
The gourds are nesting cavities for a purple martin colony. The story of the purple martins is one of an unusual human-avian relationship.
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