| ID | 10039 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | seuj nagar, narengi, housing colony, guwahati 26 |
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| Rough Address/Area | seuj nagar, narengi, housing colony, guwahati 26 |
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| City/District | Guwahati |
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| State | Assam |
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| Location Latitude | 26.14712906 |
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| Location Longitude | 91.73554993 |
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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 (outskirts) |
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| Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above? | Agricultural fields |
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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? | Occasionally: I saw sparrows several times a month |
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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 fair number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 5 and 30 birds |
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| Q10. If House Sparrows are/were present in this time period and locality/area, did you observe active nests? | Sparrows observed but no nests seen |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | I want to share a House Sparrow story from my childhood. In my childhood only I used to see a folk of house sparrows coming to our balcony and specially in winter season, they were around 20-30 in numbers and loved to eat vegetable seed(specially spinach seed). To avoid sparrows my father used paper in small parts tightened with ropes above the seeds. I remember how i and my brothers tried to catch the house sparrows with a large basket (karahi). What we used to do is to place a plate filled with rice and hide behind a window and whenever the sparrows came to eat the rice we would place the basket above it . But only once we were able to catch one and kept it for a day, then next day we released it.
That day..it was a really memorable day, we spent the whole day sitting beside the sparrow and taking care of it. we gave water , rice and other grains. But we were sad that we couldnt catch more sparrows because the whole day the sparrow was seeking for its friends. So we decided to leave it free.
Its just a memory though...i miss the folks of sparrows hopping around. Now a days we only see upto 5 sparrows. If it continues like that our next generation will miss this beautiful, charming, small bird and they will only see these sparrows in their books. So we all must try hard to save the house sparrow. |
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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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