| ID | 3276 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Chinmaya Nagar, Emmanuel sir's home |
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| Rough Address/Area | Chinmayanagar, Engineering college (PO) |
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| City/District | Anantapur |
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| State | Andhra Pradesh |
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| Location Latitude | 14.64135170 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.60633850 |
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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? | Other rural area |
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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? | More than 1 km across (eg, a large village or town) |
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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? | When I was a kid, I rescued a baby sparrow and I was happy to see him fly again... This made me a kind of attachment towards them. They come inside my house and I fed them frequently, and with the cellphone towers their population has gone down dramatically. 3 years back, I could hardly see them everyday. Once I found them 2-3 Kms away from my home where there was no much human population. There were about some 10s 20s of them. I know these little guys will extinct if we don't start at the earliest to respond to their aid... So I allowed all the thorny bushes to grow and I educated people nearby not to cut those bushy thorn trees, and soon I observed them coming back, and later I found them nesting. Now after 3 years I brought back my childhood once again... I could hear to their chirps once again... |
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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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