| ID | 1224 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Sampangiramanagar |
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| Rough Address/Area | Sampangi Rama Nagar |
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| City/District | Bangalore |
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| State | Karnataka |
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| Location Latitude | 12.96508026 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.59265900 |
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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 (main) |
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| Q5. What kind of locality is/was this in the time period chosen above? | New residential development |
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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? | Always: I saw sparrows every day |
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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? | Nests seen frequently |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | During this period i used to see the sparrows daily and hear their sweet chirp, i used to feed them with the worm, grains on my house terrace. After the mobile network started growing and towers where put in every main road the sparrow disappeard completely..now if i need to see the sparrow i will have to visit my grandmother village and see them...we are really missing them and our next generation wouldn't know what birds are they did they really existed...the only way is to reduce the mobile towers and have some dedicated place for these towers which is atleast away from the residential building so that we can see the sparrows and their voice back... |
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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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