| ID | 6397 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | parel village approx 1 sq mile |
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| Rough Address/Area | Parel |
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| City/District | Mumbai |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 18.99957275 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.84410858 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 2010-2012 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | City (main) |
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| Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above? | Old residential area |
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| Q6. Roughly how large is the locality/area from which you are reporting sparrows? | 500 m to 1 km across (eg, a residential colony, commercial area or small village) |
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| Q7. How well do/did you know this place in the time period chosen above? | I lived there |
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| Q8. How frequently did you see House Sparrows in the time period and locality/area chosen above? | Always: I saw sparrows every day |
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| Q9. When you did see House Sparrows in this time period and locality/area, how many did you typically see? | A large number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 30 and 100 birds |
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| Q10. If House Sparrows are/were present in this time period and locality/area, did you observe active nests? | Nests seen frequently |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | formerly upto year 2000, the houses with tiled roofs were present and sparrows used to make nests in roof wooden rafters. even in the mhada buildings they used to nest. Now old houses are replaced by towers so nesting places are reduced.
secondly people are unneccessarily feeding the pigeons. they feed approximately 3 to 5 kg of wheat, jawar, Nachani and corn. their number has increased and they are driving away the sparrows. so feeding of pigeons and KABUTARKHANA S must be stooped if you want to save sparrows.
the pigeons do not allow them to take a water or dust bath. they eat all the small insects and sparrows can not feed themselves. formerly in 2000, we can see large flock of sparrows taking bath in my garden in shallow puddle. Now pigeons come there to drink and do not allow sparrows to drink. If you want I have some photoes of sparrow drinking and bathing. please let me know the email address so I can send them. |
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | |
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| Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown? | |
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| Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality? | |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | |
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