| ID | 4300 |
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| Q1. Name of locality or area you are reporting about | Rajghat Colony, Datia |
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| Rough Address/Area | |
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| City/District | Datia |
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| State | Madhya Pradesh |
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| Location Latitude | 25.65859985 |
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| Location Longitude | 78.45278168 |
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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? | Town |
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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? | Other, Currently living |
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| Q8. How frequently did you see House Sparrows in the time period and locality/area chosen above? | Occasionally: I saw sparrows several times a month |
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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 few birds: When I saw sparrows, there were usually less than 5 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? | I’m living in above said locality since November 2008. There were many flock of sparrows used to visit my home regularly. I used to observe flock sitting over electric lines, telephone line and TV cable lines in the locality. Number of flocks visiting was drastically reduced and now I can hardly count any flocks over there. Sparrow flocks have been regularly visiting my home and I usually used to woke up in morning by listening sparrow chirp during 2008-09. Many pair in the breeding season used to search every nook and corner of my home for making nest. Towards end of 2009, some cell phone company erected its tower just 50 meter away from my home and then onwards I kept this observation in mind and shared this with all my fellow forestry scientist at CSWCRTI research centre Datia and NRCAF, Jhansi as well. This year I found only two pair making attempt to build their nest and that that four birds only visiting my home premises. Large flocks are vanished. This is one of the right observations I kept on impact of cell phone tower on sparrows and I opener to me, how our scientific progress killing other creature in the nature? |
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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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