
l. to r. Milan Bull, CT Audubon and Phil Donahue. ©The Purple Martin Conservation Association (PMCA). All Rights Reserved.
Phil Donahue discusses his Purple Martin colony and accompanying website www.gazebophil.com in this edition of BirdCallsRadio, with host, Mardi Dickinson, which originally aired on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.
Listen as this iconic TV personality describes his passion for Purple Martins. Donahue, along with his wife Marlo Thomas, has a large Purple Martin colony at their home. It was set up with the help of CT Audubon.

Left to right, Milan Bull of CT Audubon, Marlo Thomas, and Phil Donahue at the site of Donahue’s Purple Martin colony. ©Scott Kruitbosch. All Rights Reserved.
Donahue, founder of The Phil Donahue Show, also discusses his conversations with Edward O. Wilson, world renowned biologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Ants,” and James D. Watson, best known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.
Donahue is an American media personality, writer and film producer, best known for The Phil Donahue Show, which ran from 1967 to 1996, the longest running syndicated talk show in U.S. television history.
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