| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | Sarahan is a beautiful place in Himachal Pradesh. It has the famous Bheemakali temple in its midst and many religious tourists frequent this place. Most of the people are farmers and their crops include apple, maize, potato, wheat etc.
It has a rich biodiversity with people reporting leopards, himalayan black bear, musk deer etc.
There is a pheasantry in Sarahan where you get to see pheasant species like cheer, monal, khalij and western tragopan. But the pheasantry remains closed during the breeding season for few months starting from April first week till August.
It has a good number of avian flora as well. The most beautiful I observed was Red-billed blue magpie which looks elegant in its flight with long tail feathers following behind. Then there are lots of other birds like laughing thrushes, grey bushchat, tits, black birds, barred owlets, turtle dove, kite, vultures, scarlet minivets, verditer flycatchers, black and yellow grosbeak, himalayan bulbul, different woodpeckers, khalij pheasant, koklass pheasant, and many other birds which I can't identify.
The common house sparrow is found in abundance over here. I don't know their population status of previous year but compared to other towns the bird is found in abundance. You can hear them chirping happily in the mornings and evenings. In the early mornings you can find them foraging on the grounds along with an other sparrow species called Russet's sparrow. And by evening they gather in groups among bushes on the fringes of the village.
H1= I feel like their population decline is due to lack of foraging grounds in many big cities.
H2= I also feel like lack of nesting places in concrete houses of big cities is causing its population decline as well.
Other than that, pesticides, radio waves, increase of crow population etc could be factors attributable to their population decline. |
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