| ID | 3630 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Undeveloped area |
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| Rough Address/Area | Sector 33A |
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| City/District | Noida |
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| State | Uttar Pradesh |
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| Location Latitude | 28.58562088 |
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| Location Longitude | 77.34976959 |
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| Q3. What time period are you reporting about? | 2005-2009 |
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| Q4. What kind of general area are you reporting about? | City (outskirts) |
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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? | 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? | 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? | Sector 33A Noida. This is an undeveloped sector of Noida and Prakash Hospital is the only permanent building in this area. On Sundays, about 50-60 buses are parked here which are used for ferrying office goers on weekdays to different parts of Delhi and other satellite towns. Here I have seen sparrows attempting to build nests on the rear view mirrors of these parked buses without realizing the impermanence of the chosen sites. These birds are also seen making nests in the exhaust pipes of the diesel generator sets placed outside the hospital. At least once I spotted a soot-laden half-built nest of a sparrow lying near the DG set, blown off by the sudden blast from the exhaust pipe during power cuts in the area. Clearly there is acute shortage of nesting sites for these birds. It would be better if we install some kind of nest boxes in our houses and allow these birds to build nests |
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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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