| ID | 2181 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Jalore |
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| Rough Address/Area | |
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| City/District | Jalore |
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| State | Rajasthan |
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| Location Latitude | 25.41723061 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.76226807 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1990-1994 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | Village |
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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? | Less than 100 metres across (eg, a few houses or shops) |
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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 very large number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually more than 100 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? | We had to put card boards or thin nets in windows and other open areas near the fans. Every day some or the other sparrow used to get cut by the means of electric fans. So we finally decided not to operate that particular area of fan. There were almost more than 30 to 40 sparrows found in one house. Like that there were many many sparrows with their active nests almost in all seasons in all of our near by houses. The small babies hatched out of the eggs were beautiful without any fur or wings and were redish in colour. There used to be continous chirping noise in my house. I used to see two types of sparrows one black and the other one in cream as if the former was male and the later was female. I even noticed when one went out to bring some food for the birds the other used to be just around the nests. They were part of my happy life. We had small trays outside all our houses to put little bajra for these sparrows. We used to keep a small bowl of water also. |
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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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