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 ...

Thousands of purple martins died across Texas and Louisiana during the February 2021 winter storm, and a newly published peer-reviewed study now quantifies the scale of that loss for the first time.

The findings come from a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Researchers say the losses could take years, and possibly decades, for the species to fully recover from. The winter storm ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution has found that the February 2021 winter storm known as the Great Texas Freeze killed thousands of purple martins, wiping out up to ...