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H N Sridhar -
Coonoor Town Nilgiris Tamil Nadu
Here is a place i enjoy visiting time and again as you can find a large number of sparrows.
There is a green habitat all round the town with old and new houses where these birds can nest. As this is a hilly area most of the houses/place have retaining walls which have small holes left in them to drain water in the rainy season which also help these birds to build nets there.
The outskirts and the tea estates are a paradise for these birds for nesting and availability of food.
Here is a place i enjoy visiting time and again as you can find a large number of sparrows.
There is a green habitat all round the town with old and new houses where these birds can nest. As this is a hilly area most of the houses/place have retaining walls which have small holes left in them to drain water in the rainy season which also help these birds to build nets there.
The outskirts and the tea estates are a paradise for these birds for nesting and availability of food.
H N Sridhar -
8th Block, Jayanagar, Banaglore Jayanagar Bangalore Karnataka
Have been living in this locality from 1984 onwards. Have seen lots of these sparrows in those day in this area. We used to feed the birds raw rice everyday and we would find a huge flock of about 30 to 50 birds come and feast at our house.
With the advent of globalization and increase in vehicular population the decline in the numbers was clearly visible as they stopped coming by the beginning of 1990.
Am not sure if the mobile towers were responsible for this dwindling in numbers as i have seen these birds in numbers in places in Nilgiries like Ooty, Coonoor Etc. where inspite of the presence of mobile towers there is still a large population of sparrows.
Have been living in this locality from 1984 onwards. Have seen lots of these sparrows in those day in this area. We used to feed the birds raw rice everyday and we would find a huge flock of about 30 to 50 birds come and feast at our house.
With the advent of globalization and increase in vehicular population the decline in the numbers was clearly visible as they stopped coming by the beginning of 1990.
Am not sure if the mobile towers were responsible for this dwindling in numbers as i have seen these birds in numbers in places in Nilgiries like Ooty, Coonoor Etc. where inspite of the presence of mobile towers there is still a large population of sparrows.
