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Photograph of a female purple martin perched on a slender, horizontal pole with a pale blue sky in the background. The martin is facing forward with its head turned to the left frame. This martin has just caught a bug that it still holds in its beak. Female purple martins have brown body feathers with white mottling, 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.