| ID | 1022 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Jogeshwari (East) |
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| Rough Address/Area | Goregaon East |
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| City/District | Mumbai |
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| State | Maharashtra |
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| Location Latitude | 19.14408684 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.85689545 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 2000-2004 |
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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? | Old residential area |
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| Q6. Roughly how large is the locality/area from which you are reporting sparrows? | 100-500 metres across (eg, a market, bus-stand or park) |
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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? | Often: I saw sparrows several times a week |
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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? | We used to stay in a chawl in Jogeshwari. We had a small play ground with little bit of jungle in front of our house. Our houses were made up cement concrete wall and wood log ceilings. There were plenty of gaps for sparrows to make their nests. When the wood logs were replaced by steel angles for whole of our chawl, they had no place to nest. Still i was able to see few of them quite frequent, but the numbers keep on dwindling and at one point of time i use to rarely See any sparrows. I still remember, when my mom or other womens in my chawl use to remove small pebles from rice, they use just come there and wait for my mom to throw some rice grains for them to feed. In the evening the trees sarroundig our house use buzz with squeky noise whole evening. Thats long vanished. I have seen such changes even at my native place in Gujarat. Its very very sad but true. If corrective action is not taken soon we will soon have to declare them as endangered birds. |
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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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