| ID | 2996 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Nearby my house |
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| Rough Address/Area | Brindavan Street, Brindavan St, West Mambalam |
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| City/District | Chennai |
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| State | Tamil Nadu |
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| Location Latitude | 13.04362392 |
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| Location Longitude | 80.22562408 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 1985-1989 |
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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? | 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? | Other, I am still living 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 occasionally |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | Sparrows were beautiful little birds always landing in groups and living in pairs. I even built a wodden houses for 5 pairs of Sparrows and hanged paddy bunches to attract them in the year 1997 and they did not occupy ; but one paid had a nest inside the well and few more pairs had nest in some holes in a nearby old house. Cats pray on them sometimes. I loved sparrows a lot because they were cute and in significant numbers. But now a days we have more trees in around my house and the backyards of about 8 houses make a large garden of trees and many birds are visiting now a days like cocoos, grey birds, many many type of birds all making wonderful noises in the early hours but not Sparrows. I really miss Sparrows. But when I lived in Abudhabi deserts between Aug2004 to Mar2006(Naya Sanaiya - new industrial area in Abudhabis reclaimed land) I found plenty of sparrows in swarms and there they were not affected by Mobile Phone Towers. Some natural predators of Sparrows must be the reason for their disappearance now a days. |
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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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