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Maheshwar Road (Colony) Mortaka (Omkareshwar Road) Barwaha Madhya Pradesh
I could daily find one or two sparrows in my balcony everyday and sometimes flock of sparrows flying in the sky. My morning used to start with chirping of sparrows. One sparrow had even built a nest in my home.
I could daily find one or two sparrows in my balcony everyday and sometimes flock of sparrows flying in the sky. My morning used to start with chirping of sparrows. One sparrow had even built a nest in my home.
Dr. SAM Meesum -
Kareli Housing scheme, Allahabad, UP Kareli Allahabad Uttar Pradesh
I love nature and off course birds, as my hobby is gardening.I am always fascinated to see mother sparrow feeding her chicks.I can ssend pics too if shall be able to catch it.
I love nature and off course birds, as my hobby is gardening.I am always fascinated to see mother sparrow feeding her chicks.I can ssend pics too if shall be able to catch it.
TAPAS BISWAS -
India BARANAGAR Kolkata West Bengal
House sparrows come to my window in the morning. They come to my dinner table to eat the left-over rice. I like them very much.
House sparrows come to my window in the morning. They come to my dinner table to eat the left-over rice. I like them very much.
Chime Tsetan -
Sarahan, Himachal Pradesh Sarahan Himachal Pradesh
Sarahan is a beautiful place in Himachal Pradesh. It has the famous Bheemakali temple in its midst and many religious tourists frequent this place. Most of the people are farmers and their crops include apple, maize, potato, wheat etc.
It has a rich biodiversity with people reporting leopards, himalayan black bear, musk deer etc.
There is a pheasantry in Sarahan where you get to see pheasant species like cheer, monal, khalij and western tragopan. But the pheasantry remains closed during the breeding season for few months starting from April first week till August.
It has a good number of avian flora as well. The most beautiful I observed was Red-billed blue magpie which looks elegant in its flight with long tail feathers following behind. Then there are lots of other birds like laughing thrushes, grey bushchat, tits, black birds, barred owlets, turtle dove, kite, vultures, scarlet minivets, verditer flycatchers, black and yellow grosbeak, himalayan bulbul, different woodpeckers, khalij pheasant, koklass pheasant, and many other birds which I can't identify.
The common house sparrow is found in abundance over here. I don't know their population status of previous year but compared to other towns the bird is found in abundance. You can hear them chirping happily in the mornings and evenings. In the early mornings you can find them foraging on the grounds along with an other sparrow species called Russet's sparrow. And by evening they gather in groups among bushes on the fringes of the village.
H1= I feel like their population decline is due to lack of foraging grounds in many big cities.
H2= I also feel like lack of nesting places in concrete houses of big cities is causing its population decline as well.
Other than that, pesticides, radio waves, increase of crow population etc could be factors attributable to their population decline.
Sarahan is a beautiful place in Himachal Pradesh. It has the famous Bheemakali temple in its midst and many religious tourists frequent this place. Most of the people are farmers and their crops include apple, maize, potato, wheat etc.
It has a rich biodiversity with people reporting leopards, himalayan black bear, musk deer etc.
There is a pheasantry in Sarahan where you get to see pheasant species like cheer, monal, khalij and western tragopan. But the pheasantry remains closed during the breeding season for few months starting from April first week till August.
It has a good number of avian flora as well. The most beautiful I observed was Red-billed blue magpie which looks elegant in its flight with long tail feathers following behind. Then there are lots of other birds like laughing thrushes, grey bushchat, tits, black birds, barred owlets, turtle dove, kite, vultures, scarlet minivets, verditer flycatchers, black and yellow grosbeak, himalayan bulbul, different woodpeckers, khalij pheasant, koklass pheasant, and many other birds which I can't identify.
The common house sparrow is found in abundance over here. I don't know their population status of previous year but compared to other towns the bird is found in abundance. You can hear them chirping happily in the mornings and evenings. In the early mornings you can find them foraging on the grounds along with an other sparrow species called Russet's sparrow. And by evening they gather in groups among bushes on the fringes of the village.
H1= I feel like their population decline is due to lack of foraging grounds in many big cities.
H2= I also feel like lack of nesting places in concrete houses of big cities is causing its population decline as well.
Other than that, pesticides, radio waves, increase of crow population etc could be factors attributable to their population decline.
Usha Lachungpa -
OPD of STNM Hospital Gangtok Sikkim
Extracts from old 2003 article in local newspapers on TREE, not House Sparrows: Pl remove if not appropriate:
SINGING TREES: It was uncanny, but the Out Patients Department of our government hospital STNM, Gangtok, seemed immune to the magic of birdsong on its doorstep. The steady streams of vehicles, the piercing whistles of the traffic policeman, the chatting of passers-by……..hardly anyone paid heed to the cheery chirping of scores of tree sparrows as they prepared to roost for the evening in the lone ‘Dhupi’ tree outside. Apparently they too were unaware that all hospital areas should be ‘Silence Zones’!
Almost every urban area has several such ‘singing trees’. I looked up the trunk of this particularly lonely tree and showed my children what none seemed to notice. In the darkness of the foliage, tiny fluffy brown bodies dotted every thin branch. The whole tree was alive with these invisible bundles of energy. It was around 4.00pm and going to be dark in a while, but as we watched more and more of these little birds dived into its shelter. Not one could be seen outside the tight foliage of this exotic tree. Like perfume, the tree was exuding all this song! And no one was listening. It was amazing that none of the human traffic underneath so much as even noticed all that cheerful commotion over their heads as they passed beneath. How immune one gets!.....
Extracts from old 2003 article in local newspapers on TREE, not House Sparrows: Pl remove if not appropriate:
SINGING TREES: It was uncanny, but the Out Patients Department of our government hospital STNM, Gangtok, seemed immune to the magic of birdsong on its doorstep. The steady streams of vehicles, the piercing whistles of the traffic policeman, the chatting of passers-by……..hardly anyone paid heed to the cheery chirping of scores of tree sparrows as they prepared to roost for the evening in the lone ‘Dhupi’ tree outside. Apparently they too were unaware that all hospital areas should be ‘Silence Zones’!
Almost every urban area has several such ‘singing trees’. I looked up the trunk of this particularly lonely tree and showed my children what none seemed to notice. In the darkness of the foliage, tiny fluffy brown bodies dotted every thin branch. The whole tree was alive with these invisible bundles of energy. It was around 4.00pm and going to be dark in a while, but as we watched more and more of these little birds dived into its shelter. Not one could be seen outside the tight foliage of this exotic tree. Like perfume, the tree was exuding all this song! And no one was listening. It was amazing that none of the human traffic underneath so much as even noticed all that cheerful commotion over their heads as they passed beneath. How immune one gets!.....
