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Kusum Gokhale -
thane city Samata Nagar, Thane West Thane Maharashtra
Tarangan Complex is a locality with high rise buildings in which almost 350 families of higher middle class reside(Map 1). In front of these buildings a big open nallah flows and flyover is built on the east side of this complex carrying heavy traffic day and night. Korum mall has come up on the north side. All the buildings have a garden and tall trees line the side of the nallah.
The drainage and water pipes are covered by concrete walls and frontage have a iron grills of 3.5 cm square openings. These openings give free access to the sparrows and avoid menace of pigeons and other animals. In the beginning crows were not seen in this locality even though cawing of crows could be heard only in the early morning.
The garden receives cow dung manure and has mainly Ficus hedge which continues into bamboo hedge on the road side of this complex. At the end, the bamboo hedge turns into thicket (5 feet breadth, 13 feet in length and 11 feet height) which becomes short and sparse as it continues. The thicket is the roosting site of the sparrows in the morning. In the evening, sparrows gather in the ficus and sparse bamboos chirping continuously and then retire to roost in the bamboo thicket.
The sparrows chirp for almost 45 minutes before sun rise and then leave their roosting place invariably within 15 minutes in groups of 10 to 15 just before the sunrise. The number of sparrows was counted from the two ends of the thicket (site 1 and 2 respectively) for half an hour. Some of them rest for a few seconds on a nearby tree probably to warm up and then fly. A few of them return back. The returned sparrows are subtracted from the total number of sparrows to give a correct picture. (Table 1).
TABLE 1 - Total number of sparrow continued on pg 3
Tarangan Complex is a locality with high rise buildings in which almost 350 families of higher middle class reside(Map 1). In front of these buildings a big open nallah flows and flyover is built on the east side of this complex carrying heavy traffic day and night. Korum mall has come up on the north side. All the buildings have a garden and tall trees line the side of the nallah.
The drainage and water pipes are covered by concrete walls and frontage have a iron grills of 3.5 cm square openings. These openings give free access to the sparrows and avoid menace of pigeons and other animals. In the beginning crows were not seen in this locality even though cawing of crows could be heard only in the early morning.
The garden receives cow dung manure and has mainly Ficus hedge which continues into bamboo hedge on the road side of this complex. At the end, the bamboo hedge turns into thicket (5 feet breadth, 13 feet in length and 11 feet height) which becomes short and sparse as it continues. The thicket is the roosting site of the sparrows in the morning. In the evening, sparrows gather in the ficus and sparse bamboos chirping continuously and then retire to roost in the bamboo thicket.
The sparrows chirp for almost 45 minutes before sun rise and then leave their roosting place invariably within 15 minutes in groups of 10 to 15 just before the sunrise. The number of sparrows was counted from the two ends of the thicket (site 1 and 2 respectively) for half an hour. Some of them rest for a few seconds on a nearby tree probably to warm up and then fly. A few of them return back. The returned sparrows are subtracted from the total number of sparrows to give a correct picture. (Table 1).
TABLE 1 - Total number of sparrow continued on pg 3
Akansha Maurya -
railway station Domingarh Railway Station Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh
while travelling from Gorakhpur to Jammu there lies a small station named, Domingarh. while looking outside the window i figured out a sparrow sitting on the fence of the railway station. It was after many years i had seen a sparrow.
while travelling from Gorakhpur to Jammu there lies a small station named, Domingarh. while looking outside the window i figured out a sparrow sitting on the fence of the railway station. It was after many years i had seen a sparrow.
Rajat Manjul -
Ambedkar Nagar,Bajrang Bali Gali,Barmasia Williams Town Deoghar Jharkhand
Our House was completed in 2001 and we started living here.On one of the ventilators(facing east) of our house,a sparrow had built its nest & so I woke everyday due to the chirping of the birds......it felt so soothing.There were many sparrows living in our backyard where we have so many plants & trees.We were keeping pigeons in our house & used to feed them three times a day.Whenever we used to scatter the grains for pigeons,even the sparrows would come down in numbers and eat with them.It was such a beautiful sight & it was also my favourite passtime.Then in 2002 my sister brought a cute female parrot from my grandpa.We always took it out from its cage and left it on the ground to wander.Then it would go straight to the spot where sparrows were eating or playing and the sparrows would just see it and fly away.There were around 80 to 100 sparrows that were coming to our compound everyday.But sadly there number decreased rapidly due to some unknown reasons and since 2008,I was not able to see any sparrows in my locality.But on 17th of April 2012,I saw two sparrows drinking water from the vessel kept for pigeons...........I was so happy to see them again...though they are only two.....I really miss the time I spent with them........
Our House was completed in 2001 and we started living here.On one of the ventilators(facing east) of our house,a sparrow had built its nest & so I woke everyday due to the chirping of the birds......it felt so soothing.There were many sparrows living in our backyard where we have so many plants & trees.We were keeping pigeons in our house & used to feed them three times a day.Whenever we used to scatter the grains for pigeons,even the sparrows would come down in numbers and eat with them.It was such a beautiful sight & it was also my favourite passtime.Then in 2002 my sister brought a cute female parrot from my grandpa.We always took it out from its cage and left it on the ground to wander.Then it would go straight to the spot where sparrows were eating or playing and the sparrows would just see it and fly away.There were around 80 to 100 sparrows that were coming to our compound everyday.But sadly there number decreased rapidly due to some unknown reasons and since 2008,I was not able to see any sparrows in my locality.But on 17th of April 2012,I saw two sparrows drinking water from the vessel kept for pigeons...........I was so happy to see them again...though they are only two.....I really miss the time I spent with them........
Rajat Manjul -
Ambedkar Nagar,Bajrang Bali Gali,Barmasia Williams Town Deoghar Jharkhand
Our House was completed in 2001 and we started living here.On one of the ventilators(facing east) of our house,a sparrow had built its nest & so I woke everyday due to the chirping of the birds......it felt so soothing.There were many sparrows living in our backyard where we have so many plants & trees.We were keeping pigeons in our house & used to feed them three times a day.Whenever we used to scatter the grains for pigeons,even the sparrows would come down in numbers and eat with them.It was such a beautiful sight & it was also my favourite passtime.Then in 2002 my sister brought a cute female parrot from my grandpa.We always took it out from its cage and left it on the ground to wander.Then it would go straight to the spot where sparrows were eating or playing and the sparrows would just see it and fly away.There were around 80 to 100 sparrows that were coming to our compound everyday.But sadly there number decreased rapidly due to some unknown reasons and since 2008,I was not able to see any sparrows in my locality.But on 17th of April 2012,I saw two sparrows drinking water from the vessel kept for pigeons...........I was so happy to see them again...though they are only two.....I really miss the time I spent with them........
Our House was completed in 2001 and we started living here.On one of the ventilators(facing east) of our house,a sparrow had built its nest & so I woke everyday due to the chirping of the birds......it felt so soothing.There were many sparrows living in our backyard where we have so many plants & trees.We were keeping pigeons in our house & used to feed them three times a day.Whenever we used to scatter the grains for pigeons,even the sparrows would come down in numbers and eat with them.It was such a beautiful sight & it was also my favourite passtime.Then in 2002 my sister brought a cute female parrot from my grandpa.We always took it out from its cage and left it on the ground to wander.Then it would go straight to the spot where sparrows were eating or playing and the sparrows would just see it and fly away.There were around 80 to 100 sparrows that were coming to our compound everyday.But sadly there number decreased rapidly due to some unknown reasons and since 2008,I was not able to see any sparrows in my locality.But on 17th of April 2012,I saw two sparrows drinking water from the vessel kept for pigeons...........I was so happy to see them again...though they are only two.....I really miss the time I spent with them........
DR. GORE ANANDA BHAGWAT -
Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Shrigonda Shrigonda Maharashtra
Before five years when i was teaching in class room, Sparrows were frequently disturbing by their various activities as nesting,quarreling,baby feeding etc. But today these seen become rare. The number of sparrow becomes much more reduced.
Before five years when i was teaching in class room, Sparrows were frequently disturbing by their various activities as nesting,quarreling,baby feeding etc. But today these seen become rare. The number of sparrow becomes much more reduced.
