| ID | 4028 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Railway Traffic Collony |
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| Rough Address/Area | Ratanada |
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| City/District | Jodhpur |
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| State | Rajasthan |
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| Location Latitude | 26.28208542 |
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| Location Longitude | 73.02058411 |
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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 (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 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? | Sparrows observed but no nests seen |
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| Q11. Would you like to share a story about House Sparrows from this time period? | Sh. Mangal Singh ji Rawat, Rtd. CTI from North Western Railway, used to live here for 30 years of his service. I also shared few years in his tenure at this locality and observed that he used to feed sparrows regularly in evening times.
Every day in the late afternoon more then 300 sparrows used to come for feeding, playing, dust bathing and also chirpping.
Every month Sh. Rawat used to spread more then 5 kg Bajra seeds for them. And he used to call it as his sparrows.
After his retirement from Railway, he shifted from that old railway house to new area on the outskirt of city. His sparrow are still visiting that site but not more then 20-40 every day.
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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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