Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a quarter of the breeding population of purple martins died in Texas and Louisiana during the winter storm of 2021.

Thousands of birds, including beloved purple martins, died in "The Great Texas Freeze" of 2021. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts ...

Texans haven’t forgotten about the deadly freeze of 2021 — and neither have the birds. The winter storm of 2021 led to the deaths of at least 246 Texans, as temperatures plummeted and the power grid ...