| ID | 2874 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Shantisadan apartments, palanpur patia, near Vegetable market |
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| Rough Address/Area | |
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| City/District | Surat |
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| State | Gujarat |
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| Location Latitude | 21.19499969 |
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| Location Longitude | 72.81944275 |
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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 (main) |
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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? | 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? | 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 large number: When I saw sparrows, there were usually between 30 and 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 occasionally |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | Actually in my house since last 7 to eight years each time a new pair of sparrows built a nest inside drawing room (a design was made of plaster of paris in my drawing room in which some years back due to water seepage in monsoon, some portion is broken and felled. The same was not repaired since then as the first pair of sparrows built a nest in that broken portion. Due to this nest, My family has given up the idea of repairing it as all of us are bird lovers especially sparrows). It is observed that each time the new bird flown off, a new pair will start a new family (this happens after a big fight between two to three pairs of sparrows for this space). A number of times we used to keep the babies back into the nest as and when they fall off. My son is now 8 years old and is grown up by watching these sparrows and he has developed deep love with them since childhood. Further, outside my house, two green trees are sheltering a large number of sparrows very near to my home. I used to observe them flying early in the morning towards west side of the city and in the evening they are all returning to the trees. Seeing so many birds is happy to the mind. |
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| Q12. What kind of buildings are/were present during this time period in this locality? | Grain shops, Vegetable shops, Other food shops, Non-food shops, Apartment complexes |
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| Q13. Please describe this locality/area in your words. | It is an urban area with full of traffic entire day + vegetable market + business centre + eateries + car garages+tea stalls+couple of schools + temples + mobile towers + a lot of noise pollution. You can say a busy commercial centre |
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| Q14. Does or did anyone feed sparrows in this locality/area, or put out nestboxes? | Don't know |
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| Q15. If this is an agricultural area, what are the main crops grown? | no |
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| Q16. How much green space exists/existed in this locality? | A few |
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| Q17. If you have seen sparrow nests, where were they? | Wall cavity |
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| Q18. When did mobile phone coverage arrive at this locality? | Before 1995 |
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