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Photograph of a male purple martin in flight against a pale blue sky. The martin is flying towards the camera with it wings swept up and back and its head turned to the right leaving one eye visible. Male purple martins have purple-blue body feathers that flash iridescence in bright light, brown and black wing and tail feathers, dark grey legs and feet, large, deep-set, dark eyes, and a short, pointed beak that curves down at the tip and is ideal for catching insects in flight.