| ID | 1586 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Lane No.2, Turner Road, Clement Town |
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| City/District | Dehradun |
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| State | Uttarakhand |
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| Location Latitude | 30.27660751 |
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| Location Longitude | 78.00711060 |
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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? | 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? | 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? | When I first came to live in the area in 2000, there few houses and many sparrows. However, in the past 12 years, the sparrow population has dropped, even as the number of houses has gone up. We now even have apartment blocks in the area.
I started putting up simple nesting boxes in 2004, made with dahi matkas in my verandah and with this encouragement, the sparrows began returning to the area. I now have 5 such nesting boxes, each of which have each had multiple broods each season in the last 8 years. |
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | Multi-storey bungalows, Apartment complexes |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | Suburban neighbourhood with large- to medium-sized gardens, bordered by agricultural and fallow land, brick kilns. |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | Both |
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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? | Some |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | Artificial nest box, Window, In electrical fixture |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | 2000-2004 |
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