| ID | 3397 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Noida Sector 33 |
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| Rough Address/Area | Noida Sector 33 |
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| City/District | Noida |
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| State | Uttar Pradesh |
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| Location Latitude | 28.58919716 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.35456085 |
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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? | 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 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? | 5th April 2012. A wonderful bright morning here in Noida. Both male and female sparrows are busy building their nest in my front courtyard. I watched and enjoyed their frantic activities while having my morning tea. Every few minutes both will fly away from the nest and return with thin blades of dry grass for lining their nest. After a while, at around 8 o’clock, I went out for a walk and there was more in store for me! Yearly migration of Large Cabbage White (Pieris brassicae) butterflies was at its peak today. Hordes of them were also seen on roadside purple floss flowers and fowering lantana shrubs. They return to Himalaya in N-W direction before the onset of hot summer season. These are signs of spring in Delhi / Noida area. I don’t think there is any fall in sparrows in Noida despite many mobile towers. |
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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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